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The lunatics have taken over the asylum…

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The XR Zombies have taken over Brisbane. Photo supplied.

The Zombies of the Climate ApoCOALpse have today swarmed around Queensland’s Parliament House this morning to highlight impending climate chaos.

XR spokesperson Rachel says the Zombies represented undead billionaires, workers, scientists. ‘Everyday people have come back from the future to warn of the environmental perils of inaction during this crisis.’

Zombies chased politicians. Photo supplied.

The group chased politicians around gates to block and disrupt their personal and car entry to the building and swamping them with climate zombies as they went past.

Just after 8.35am (QLD time) people breached the gates of Parliament House briefly before they were ushered out by police and security.

‘The Queensland government has failed to take any meaningful action on the climate crisis that we are facing. They have yet to declare a climate emergency. They continue to invest in destructive industries and prioritise profit over people, the COVID-19 gas led recovery plan if just one recent devastating example of that,’ says Rachel.

The spectacle of zombies lurching around the streets in gruesome blood soaked costumes, depicting an apocalyptic scene of destruction and devastation sent a strong message to politicians. The activists are portraying a future of immense human suffering if we continue to sleepwalk to catastrophe.

The message is act now

Spreading the Zombie message. Photo supplied.

The message is: If we don’t act now there will be fires and floods, food and water shortages, mass displacement of people across the world, global health crises and irreversible loss of biodiversity.

At 8.42am the group took the road outside Parliament House at the intersection of Alice and George St, for just under 10 minutes before police threatened to move in an arrest the crowd. Traffic was at a standstill  and choked up quickly in the busy peak-hour as the swarm of zombies spilt out on to the road to do the Zombie Dance, a booming rendition of Michael Jackson’s Thriller.

‘We take roads because Extinction Rebellion will continue a campaign of mass civil-disobedience led by everyday people until we experience real change led by real democracy. Other tactics, such as petitioning, door knocking, going to marches and voting  are not working for us in a system where the fossil fuel industry provide the largest source of political donations to both major parties. Our government is compromised and deadlocked,’ said Rachel.

There is still time

‘There is still time, if politicians act in the interests of the people – 75% of the population want urgent action on managing the climate crisis.’

Amy MacMahon, MP for the Greens, was the only politician seen to engage with the protestors. She came out filming the protest, and when Zombies told her they were hear to warn politicians, to tell them to listen to the climate science, because they weren’t she agreed: ‘That’s exactly right,’ she said. ‘Most people in there aren’t listing to the people and climate science, and we’ve got politicians inside here who are still defending coal on a daily basis.’

XR are demanding that decision-making on the climate and ecological crisis be led by a binding Citizen’s Assembly – informed by scientific fact, First Nations knowledge of ecosystems care, climate justice advocates and other knowledge holders – in order to formulate a plan so we can halt biodiversity loss and reach net-zero emissions by 2025.

Extinction Rebellion will stage their next act of mass disruption, Free the Truth on March 5 in the centre of the Queen Street Mall https://fb.me/e/7QrxGwptv followed by a national week of action from March 22 to 28 across all major cities: https://fb.me/e/2wHezgYN5 .

 


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5 COMMENTS

  1. I say good on the Zombies protesting about the climate, something has to be done soon if they want the earth to survive in the future . we have no other planet we must look after what we have. The governments must act soon and listen to the experts on climate change.

  2. Isn’t fear a great psychological manipulator , these kids have allowed themselves to be totally indoctrinated and should start questioning the so called science, the hottest temperature recorded in Australia according to the National Archive was way back in 1909 , 51.7C at Bourke , the Northern Hemisphere is currently experiencing its coldest winter in years , who was it that predicted the end of snow by 2020 ? yes folks another dud prediction , doesn’t look like were going to fry and die any time soon .

    • Its not fear its reality. Projected temp increase is aprox 4.5 degrees, and at present there is nothing in the way of reaching that increase. It takes decades for greenhouse gas”s to conglomerate at the periphery of the earths atmosphere where the increasing pollution band is letting through light but insulating the subsequent radiated heat. There will be variations of hotter and colder years, but the average temperature increase we are seeing now ( accepted by scientists if not by you) is from greenhouse gas’s from previous decades, so there will be further increases in temperature, inciting higher intensity bush fires, increased floods from higher evaporation, and yes higher intensity blizzards and snow fall. No body alleged an end of snow – where it remains below freezing the increased evaporation will cause a higher intensity of blizzards and snow fall, but the snow line will travel up mountains and the mountain glaciers will continue to retreat. The fact is that these “kids” understand that there is catastrophe unfolding, and of a scale that potentially can bring down all industrialised nations, with the poorer nations being dragged into this slow lobster pot like temperature increase with little capacity to manage the impacts.

  3. Thanks Zombies for your courageous action,very important…you are the real people,most politicians are Zombies from prehistoric era! Keep up the good work,very valuable indeed!

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