Jailed UK protester trotted on a gas-guzzling 4×4 pickup – Are you enjoying it?
By Paul Homewood
h/t Dave Ward
You can’t create it!
One British Insulation Activist jailed after blocking traffic for more than two years driving around the world with a 4×4 diesel engine.
Like she used to be imprisoned for four months, Emma Smart announced that she would go on a hunger strike because she insisted that her actions were “morally correct” and that “in my heart, I know that I am on the right side of history.” .
But the 44-year-old, who has been arrested a number of times for her protest activities, including earlier allegations of block the highway, was charged with hypocrisy after she drove more than 81,000 miles through 52 countries in a diesel vehicle.
A Smart blog post says that they have returned to the UK for the money and could resume their trip in a 25-year-old four-wheeler around 2019, but they have shelved plans to take part. Extinction Rebellion (XR) and climate activism.
Prior to joining XR, Smart and her partner, who describe themselves as “brave explorers with dreams of circumnavigating the planet”, drove through Europe, Western Sahara, and central and eastern Europe. Southeast Asia.
Their travels from 2012 to 2016 included trips to Spain, Italy, Mongolia, Russia, Morocco, Uzbekistan, Iran, India, Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia.
Smart says they moved back to the UK to get a job and make money, and two and a half years after returning, they had saved enough to ship their Toyota Hilux to South America and start what they wanted. described as “phase 4” of their travel.