Carefully thought out?
Not just pandering to right wing interests?
"I hate treehuggers" and "protesting is rude".
To be fair it doesn't sound like it was said in public, but I suppose that's only a small point.
Apparently, he first said he's not interested in tree huggers, as he was more interested in creating sustainable jobs to replace jobs in old sectors which were being lost. This latter comment has to be a priority I think, and there has to be priorities, even more so for now and the future, as we're skint and in one hell of a hole.
Saying he hates tree huggers was him losing his rag a bit, which is ok, everyone does it, but like Reeves said "there are better ways to tackle the climate emergency than stopping working people getting to their jobs”.
The public are probably largely behind green policies, but they can also not be supportive of just stop oil or tree huggers etc.
You can want to be greener or support a cause without supporting a disruptive protest, and not everything needs a protest.
Some Trees have to come down to build infrastructure, and the protection they get is massive, I work on schemes to avoid damage to trees every day, where new infrastructure needs to be installed, it's one of my main jobs (I've saved thousands of trees and limited damage to others with and without TPO's etc). Construction spends an absolute fortune on it (which ultimately the taxpayer pays). All wood sourced for construction in the UK is sustainable etc, every small firm upwards has to have sustainability/ timber policies or they don't get accreditations which they need to win contracts etc.
Sure, the world is 100% in a hole with the environment, but the UK has actually done quite well on green schemes over the last 15 years or so, it's one of the few things the Tories have largely done ok at (surprisingly), and we're doing a hell of a lot better than a lot of places in the EU, in similar positions as we are.
It just seems a bit of an odd thing to protest (Trees or JSO), when we're facing absolutely massive issues elsewhere, and the topics they're protesting about are ones we're not doing bad on (we're doing bad and much worse on 100's of others).
Of course, protesting for what we do in the UK doesn't actually mean much either, not in the grand scheme of things, not when the current and next superpowers are doing very little, we're a drop in the ocean compared to them, and we're doing out bit I think. Of course, we could do better, but it often comes at a cost.
The problem we have now is we're in a financial and economic hole, and likely a jobs hole in the future, and people's immediate lives have to be a priority.
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FFS its just impossible to get through. Leaking rubbish like "I hate tree huggers" is living in the real world? Come off it. Talking about investing in renewables and creating jobs as if they're a dichotomy is obviously false to anyone who thinks about it for any amount of time.