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Afternoon rush hour on the 10 St. bridge, cars and trucks heading home after a working day in the downtown.

As they approach Memorial Dr. there are protesters. The protesters want net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. You read that right, by 2025.

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Later, a mouthpiece for the group can’t say how that’s going to happen, can’t give one suggestion.

He does say the group is in favour of speedy action. Whatever that means.

It doesn’t really matter.

They are part of an international rebellion, don’t you know. Mass extinction is happening, human extinction is a real risk, they say.

They claim to suffer from something called climate grief. They want the government to create a body of citizens to hold the feet of elected politicians to the fire in the name of ecological justice.

Some are dressed up. Some wear gas masks. Some carry signs. Others carry banners. A few ring hand-held funeral bells. All that’s missing is a coffin and pallbearers.