{"id":1920251,"date":"2023-04-27T15:56:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T19:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-climate-activist-who-shut-down-highway-admits-she-wants-to-ruin-your-life\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T15:56:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T19:56:53","slug":"watch-climate-activist-who-shut-down-highway-admits-she-wants-to-ruin-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-climate-activist-who-shut-down-highway-admits-she-wants-to-ruin-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Climate Activist Who Shut Down Highway Admits She Wants To Ruin Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-climate-activist-who-shut-down-highway-admits-she-wants-to-ruin-your-life%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1920251&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<p><h2>&#8216;We consciously are disrupting people&#8217;s lives,&#8217; climate alarmism group says after protest<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"main-video-embed\"> \t\t \t\t \t<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A climate activist who shut down a Washington, D.C., highway acknowledged that she&#8217;s consciously &#8220;disrupting people&#8217;s lives&#8221; and compared herself to civil rights pioneers who were &#8220;not well liked during their time.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p>Declare Emergency, a climate alarmism group that conducts disruptive protests in and around D.C. in hopes of urging President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency, on Wednesday blockaded a busy section of the George Washington Memorial Parkway. After the demonstration, group spokeswoman Nora Swisher dismissed criticism of the protest, admitting that the &#8220;point&#8221; of the protest is to ruin people&#8217;s days. Swisher went on to argue that those who don&#8217;t like her tactics will eventually come around, just as the general public now reveres once-unpopular civil rights pioneers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We consciously are disrupting people&#8217;s lives today in hopes that we can mitigate more serious destruction down the road. Because that&#8217;s the trajectory we&#8217;re on right now,&#8221; Swisher told FOX 5. When asked if she feared whether the protest would turn people against her cause, Swisher said she &#8220;expected&#8221; such a backlash and expressed confidence that history would look fondly upon the group. &#8220;This has been true of nonviolent civil disobedience movements throughout history,&#8221; Swisher said. &#8220;The suffragettes, the civil rights movement\u2014they were not well liked during their time. Now, with hindsight, we see that their actions were moral and justified.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Far-left environmental groups have long pressed the federal government to declare a national climate emergency, but the calls have entered the Democratic Party&#8217;s mainstream in recent years. Biden reportedly considered issuing a climate emergency declaration last summer but <a href=\"https:\/\/biologicaldiversity.org\/w\/news\/press-releases\/biden-stops-short-of-declaring-national-climate-emergency-2022-07-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stopped short<\/a>, prompting criticism from climate activists. Months later, in October 2022, a group of eight Democratic senators urged Biden to declare the emergency, arguing that he could not reach his emission reduction goals without the declaration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will only achieve these targets if you build off the momentum of the Inflation Reduction Act with strong executive action,&#8221; wrote the group, which included Rhode Island&#8217;s Sheldon Whitehouse, California&#8217;s Alex Padilla, and Maryland&#8217;s Chris Van Hollen. &#8220;We urge you to take the important next step of declaring a climate emergency and unlocking the full tools at your disposal to address this crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A climate emergency declaration would allow Biden to unlock COVID-esque emergency powers to fight climate change through executive order. Under a climate emergency, for example, Biden could use the Defense Production Act to stimulate green energy generation. He could also <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/3568048-what-would-declaring-a-national-climate-emergency-do\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deploy<\/a> the military to build green energy projects near military installments around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Declare Emergency has long blocked highways around D.C., including <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/this-climate-alarmism-group-is-planning-to-shut-down-the-nations-capital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last year on Independence Day<\/a>. In October 2022, meanwhile, the group planned a &#8220;week of arrest,&#8221; which then-leader Donald Zepeda said was necessary to spur climate action. &#8220;What people are interested in and concerned about is the sacrifice element,&#8221; Zepeda told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;So I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re going to have actions without arrests.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p>Residents in D.C. and Northern Virginia can expect similar protests from the group &#8220;in the coming weeks and months,&#8221; Swisher told FOX 5. Those demonstrations are not likely to make Declare Emergency any friends. One local resident trashed the group&#8217;s Wednesday protest in an interview with FOX 5, saying the demonstration forced her to miss a medical appointment for her dog.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s something that&#8217;s a very important cause, of course, but you&#8217;re now having all these people idle, and you&#8217;re also now making them angry,&#8221; the woman said. &#8220;If you want people to be attentive to your cause, making them angry is not the way to do it, especially at 9 o&#8217;clock on a Wednesday morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We consciously are disrupting people&#8217;s lives,&#8217; climate alarmism group says after protest A climate activist who shut down a Washington, D.C., highway acknowledged that she&#8217;s consciously &#8220;disrupting people&#8217;s lives&#8221; and compared herself to civil rights pioneers who were &#8220;not well liked during their time.&#8221; Declare Emergency, a climate alarmism group that conducts disruptive protests in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":1920252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[5327,5216,4321,3959,3848,6279,4008,4516],"class_list":["post-1920251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-activist","tag-admits","tag-climate","tag-highway","tag-life","tag-ruin","tag-shut","tag-watch"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}