More than 50,000 protesters at Sydney Climate Strike, page-391

I thought it was about time I replied to your post.

I am not one side; I try to ask some questions that I think I are perfectly reasonable and legitimate.

Sheesh … as I scroll through this thread I find it difficult to believe you are not one sided … of course I only read a few posts here and there so perhaps you have indeed asked questions of the "other side", or not.

There are 8.0bn people on earth currently; $1bn of those live like you and I do, consuming voraciously and polluting the planet like crazy.

The remaining 8.0bn people in the undeveloped and developing worlds - whose per capita carbon footprint is currently around one-tenth of ours - want to live like we do (and who are we to curtail them?).
And that 8.0bn cohort will be close to 10bn in three decades's time.

Meaning that, if you do the maths, even if:
1. those developed and developing world inhabitants increase their per capita carbon emissions to a mere one-fifth of ours, and
2. we developed world inhabitants reduce our carbon emissions by a whopping 50%,
...it will still result in an increase in total carbon emissions by somewhere close to 50% over the next three decades.

I take it you're not a fan of capitalism then.

More often than not, when I pose this sort of question the response I get is along the lines of,
"You're a climate denier!"
"You're just a dinosaur."
"You're obviously an Alan Jones/Andrew Bolt style fascist."
"Google the science, idiot!"
"Oh, what a wanker!"

You must be disgusted then by the behaviour of most on here when discussing the students. Or perhaps you don't get that easily offended ...

I struggle to see how protesting in the streets of a western city has any bearing on those determinants.

Of course you would as you percieve no direct negative impact to yourself.