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Slack.com slash DHQ. This is CBS I in the world. I'm John Bass, who with my colleague Joseph

Sternberg, the first conversation for the new year, he writes politically economics for

the Wall Street Journal, a member of the editorial board. And during these days, an announcement

from Extinction Rebellion. I'm starting with a positive here because there are plenty

of negatives in life in London right now and we'll get to the strikes in a moment. Extinction

Rebellion is a colorful and theatrical, theatrical organization that can wear very beautiful costumes

of red as my memory, but bright colors and can take over traffic circles in London and

can make extreme statements. There are unusual statements about how we have to end all

fossil fuels now, go back to simpler living, watch our GDP plunge, find a way forward without

damaging the planet profoundly. That's the stated goal, very admirable. At the same time,

there's been a subset of it called just stop oil that has been blocking traffic in London

and Joe, you correctly identified what the task at hand was. Those with the same young people

being arrested all the time. And the Metropolitan Police Force just chose to let them be bailed

out or walk out on their own reconnaissance and they went back to blocking traffic. Well,

the mother ship Extinction Rebellion says no more, it wasn't useful or maybe they're not

any longer going to glue themselves to the glass of famous paintings in various museums.

Do you trust it, Joe? Do you think they'll be back to their games? Have you seen any

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