Hartley-brewer tears into exctintion rebellion 'on crack cocaine'

The broadcaster claimed Extinction Rebellion activists have been using "bullying" tactics to demand Government action on climate change. Campaigners have been protesting through

the streets of London for the past four days, blocking roads and carrying out disruptive stunts across the Capital. As spokesman Rupert Reed insisted argued children are now concerned about

their future, Ms Hartley-Brewer told BBC Question Time: "This is absolute nonsense. This is Malthus on crack cocaine. "This is the stuff that’s been predicted, this sort of

nihilistic, the world is going to end stuff The IPCC is not predicting any of that, there is nothing in the science, nothing in the documents, nothing in the IPCC reports that are predicting

any of that." Malthus was an 18th-century scholar specialised in demography who advocated abstinence as one of the effective means to keep population growth under check to maintain a

stable stock of food. She continued: "What this is, the tactic you are using – and again, you don’t have aims, Extinction Rebellion. "You have what you call demands. Those demands

you are trying to push through bullying." JUST IN: BBC QT FURY: THEO PAPHITIS CLASHES WITH EXTINCTION REBELLION MEMBER - 'YOU'RE DELUDED' Ms Hartley-Brewer insisted

Extinction Rebellion should use the ballot box to employ a democratic and orderly tool to voice their concern over the state of the climate. She added: "You’ve got the option to stand

at the ballot box, you have the cheek to talk about the Suffragettes and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States – women didn’t have the vote and neither did black people in America.

That’s why they had to resort to that sort of action. "You have the ballot box. Last time around, with the European elections, under PR – the Green Party isn’t actually affected by

first-past-the-post system – got 11.8 percent of the vote. "That’s a massive increase from the last general election of 1.6 percent. It just shows you can persuade people if you want to

persuade them at the ballot box. You want to have the arguments then you can do it. READ MORE: BBC QUESTION TIME VIEWERS FURIOUS AT EXTINCTION REBELLION GUEST – 'BLOCK HIM GETTING

IN!' On Thursday, Extinction Rebellion activists paralysed air traffic from London City airport as a campaigned glued himself to the top of a plane to protest. Protestors have

gatecrashed several of the capital’s iconic landmarks. They have also assembled in European capitals, Berlin and Paris. Lambeth Bridge, Westminster Bridge and Trafalgar Square in London have

been repeatedly locked off over the past few days as marchers sat down on the bridges to block traffic. The environmental group has confirmed up to 30,000 activists were expected to take to

the streets in the second wave of mass protests to take place in 2019.