Peter Hitchens;

It will soon be impossible to criticise the fanatics of Extinction Rebellion.
 
In fact, I will not be at all surprised if, in years to come, I and others face prosecution for having dared to doubt them.
 
Soon we will be sitting in an impoverished, dark country, with a trashed economy, incessant power cuts and dismal standard of living, caused by their dogma.
 
Putting people on trial for warning against this will be one way to keep warm and occupied.
 
So, while I still may, I’ll say that this is one of the nastiest and stupidest outbreaks of intolerant, irrational zealotry since mankind emerged from the Dark Ages. I speak as a former intolerant zealot, who grew out of it.
 
I know the fierce joy which comes from despising others, only too well. And I fear it.
So, off we go into the cold and dark, while the red-clad propaganda mummers simper and gesticulate. Protesters are pictured at a ‘grief march’ in London last week
Will sane people have to glue themselves to aircraft and bridges to get anyone to listen? And if they do, will they be indulged by our politicised, biased police, as the Warmists are?
 
Perhaps the most dispiriting version of it is to be seen in the painted, beatific faces of the red-robed mime-artists who are to be found on so many of the demonstrations demanding that this country commits economic suicide.
 
Who can tell what is going on behind those self-satisfied, ethereal expressions? But they give these marches a strong whiff of the Age of Inquisitions, which I once thought we had escaped.
 
I won’t try to argue here on the rightness or wrongness of the Warmists’ theory about the causes of climate change.
 
I know from long, multiple experience that they respond to reasonable doubt with fury and defamatory cries of ‘denier’.
 
I spend much of my life in debate, and will take on any rational opponent. But there are some causes you can’t reason with, and this is one of them.
 
They prefer fury to logic. This is always the sign of someone who is not sure of his own case, and hates to hear his inner doubts spoken.