Thread by @parents4future

"I think it's very worrying that we lock people up that are actually trying to make sure that we have some kind of future." - @GaryLineker

1/🧵 #ClimateCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis #EndFossilFuels

"I understand why people can get upset because it's disruptive demonstration.

But history kind of tells you the only demonstrations that really work are disruptive ones." - @GaryLineker

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"So it's a tough one. It's not a case of blaming our government for not doing enough on climate change. It's the whole world.

Governments and the powerful people of the world are the only ones that can really halt this disaster coming." - @GaryLineker

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"So, you know, I'm kind of running out of hope a little bit, but there is hope there. We have brilliant scientists in the world. They understand the issue. They understand ways that we can we can turn it around." - @GaryLineker

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"But our overreliance on fossil fuels, we've got to find a way out of that because we're going to destroy the future for our children and their children.

And to be honest, that should be the biggest issue of the day." - @GaryLineker

5/ #EndFossilFuels @fossiltreaty

"And we should all be trying to turn governments on it, not just relying on a few people that actually, they do stuff knowing that they'll probably be locked up." - @GaryLineker

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"And I kind of admire that in a way, and I know it angers a lot of people, but that's kind of what they want because it's the only way it gets publicized and it's the only reason we're talking about it now. And I think that's important. I think if we manage to save this…"

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"…save the human race from 50 years or 100 years time and we still exist, they'll look back on these and they'll look back on @GretaThunberg and people like that that have made a real difference.

And they might well be the heroes." - @GaryLineker

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