- Most of Companies are responsible for climate change
- Most of Environment are polluted
- What should be Done About this, people are dead because of others interest what a world.
The warning comes as global environmental movement Extinction Rebellion (XR) restarted large-scale protests in the U.K., saying that it will target the Houses of Parliament as well as other "key institutions of power" in a bid to raise awareness of the climate emergency.
Protests have seen hundreds of arrests, activists gluing themselves to the street outside Parliament and the closure of traffic routes
Extinction Rebellion has also previously launched what it called an "international rebellion" where protests took place in more than 60 cities worldwide. There are now over 50 local XR groups in the U.S., for example.
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The group is demanding an emergency response from the government to tackle what it describes as the looming "climate cataclysm" and says its protests, which have previously resulted in major transport disruption, will last for 10 days.
"We need to have more of a focus on companies and XR has been moving in that direction," says Rupert Read, an XR spokesperson, speaking to Newsweek while people near him are being arrested during a demonstration.
"I've been urging it to move in that direction for a while, so that means things like doing significant non-violent direct-action protests against those companies
The report from Carbon Majors, part of the Climate Accountability Institute, found that just 100 companies since 1988 were responsible for 70 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.*
Highlighting companies such as ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and Chevron, the report claimed that a "relatively small set of fossil fuel producers may hold the key to systemic change on carbon emissions".
What should be done against these companies?
Majority says that boycotting the companies is one way to move forward while also calling for shareholder activism "Those companies need to feel the pressure and they need to understand that they are complicit in bringing our civilization towards an end and that we're not going to let them get away with that," he says.
However, Read rejected rumors that the group had plans to occupy Parliament, saying that the emphasis was on targeted, non-violent direct action aimed at those most responsible for the climate crisis.
"We are blocking roads around Parliament Square, we were seeking to stop [U.K. Prime Minister] Boris Johnson getting into Parliament for Prime Minister's Questions, I think that effort has been foiled but we're going to put the pressure on. Non-violent direct action works and it's important now more than ever because now is our last chance
Read thinks that rather than COVID-19 pushing climate change off the agenda, it has galvanized the public after many realized just how vulnerable societies are.
"[The COVID-19 pandemic] wouldn't have happened without the habitat destruction driven by the economy in China," he says. "It wouldn't have happened all over the world, without the real super spreaders, planes, taking it all over the world in rapid time."
Read says that despite all this, COVID-19 could be a good thing for the climate
"We can't wait another decade for another reset in the economy and society we, have to build back in the right way now. That kind of opportunity doesn't come along very often, the last comparable opportunity was in 2008 with the financial crisis, that's over a decade ago.
"We have to build back in the right way now."
For climate activists like Read, the pandemic is inextricably linked to climate change.
He says: "The COVID-19 emergency is part of the broader ecological emergency, It's a product of habitat destruction, it's a product of animal cruelty and in terms of its spread it's a product of rampant and out of control air travel.
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