Reflecting and Learning

...in this case the learning point is to erect shelter from the elements above the stage area ...  I'd also be a little worried about electrical safety if it were me.

That poor guitarist was initially playing in the open, until one of his fellows raced up with the brolly.  

The extinction rebellion folks would have woken in the campsite to heavy rain, which as you can see from this shot taken at lunch time, continued throughout the day (and is still continuing now at 8pm).  Poor things, I don't think they were too impressed by this particular bit of climate change, and its certainly been a more subdued last day of protest, much smaller in scale than earlier in the week.  

As I left work this evening they had nearly all packed up.  They've done a pretty good job at cleaning up behind themselves, despite the rain, there's definitely no visible litter.

It has been interesting watching the protest.  Working just next door to it I've probably been more exposed to it than most this week.  I started off broadly in favour of what they were doing but gradually became more and more irritated by them.

Undoubtedly we need to make changes much, much more quickly than we have been if we are to reduce the adverse impact of climate change.  But I'm not convinced that extinction rebellion are actually helping to achieve that.  If anything their anarchic disruption runs too much risk that it  will alienate the very people who we need to take up the climate change cause if it is to become part of mainstream political thought.

On the other hand, they are at least actually trying to do something about the problem ....