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the protests by the social justice group
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who call themselves the extinction
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rebellion has taken over Oxford Circus
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as well as many other London landmarks
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the protest is estimated to have cost
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local businesses millions of pounds so
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far and has caused travel chaos for up
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to half a million people fuck off really
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Rick that's our angle is it not not the
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planet is in mortal danger
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it's a better headline Tim here we go
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here we go here we go here's the news
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here's the news today a bunch of
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Krusty's stinking of petunia royal are
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upset because the planet is dying but
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worse than that the protest has mildly
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disrupted shoppers trying to get to H&M;
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to buy an item of fast fashion clothing
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that will end up in landfill in about a
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week the government are doing nothing
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because the government is hardwired to
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protect animal farming corporations oil
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companies and anyone with more than a
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million pounds in the bank before it
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protects its citizens and its
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environment so when it comes to global
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warming the media isn't going to deny it
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we're merely going to present it in
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abstract terms saying things like a
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temperature rise of up to two degrees
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Celsius by 2025 because that sounds
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almost Pleasant and isn't going to cause
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a panic which might make people curb
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their consumerism and demand that their
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leaders take action
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speaking of which Environment Minister
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Michael Gove a man with a face that
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looks like a mass extinction said we've
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got the message
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have you you've you got the message oh
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that's all right then come on guys you
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can all go home now because Michael Gove
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says the government has got the message
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he also said that he understood that
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action needs to be taken well when when
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I was being taught about the greenhouse
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gases and the destruction of the
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rainforests when I was at school 25
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years ago to be fair I wasn't really
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listening I just discovered wanking but
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what have you done in the preceding 25
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years exactly when is this action going
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to be taken while we've ban microbeads
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in face wash so we're well on the way
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then moving on not freedom was saved yes
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look at the people who risk their lives
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to save the treasures inside look how
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much money this oil conglomerate donated
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to save and rebuild it not so quick when
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it comes to saving natural treasures
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like the Great Barrier Reef are you not
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pumping very much dirty oil money into
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that particular conservation project are
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you
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no you're just pumping actual oil you
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can rebuild a cathedral in five years
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you don't get a chance to rebuild this
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one okay this is the news again this is
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the real news in my lifetime half of the
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world's wildlife has been wiped off the
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face of the earth even if you are some
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climate change denying nut job you can't
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deny that biodiversity is essential for
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all life on Earth including ours and the
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rate at which we are destroying habitats
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and polluting the oceans constitutes a
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mass extinction right now that is the
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fact of the matter the fact of the
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matter is that annoying as these tree
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huggers might seem peaceful civil
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disobedience has a history of changing
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minds and government policy it works
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women's rights gay rights human rights
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the headlines tonight we are
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experiencing the sixth mass extinction
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in Earth's history and it's not too late
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to do something about it in other news
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some Londoners had a hard time getting
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to work today yeah that's that's it I'm
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done it stinks too petunia royal round
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here Anna fix of wound
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I love a smoke to that to being lean
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5-bit hang on a minute I'm just the
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protest by the social media justice
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group who call themselves the extinction
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rebellion has