https://archive.md/ldXJE
"It wasn’t so long ago that the world was truly on fire with climate alarm. In
September 2019, millions of people around the world participated in a global
climate strike, the largest ever, calling for immediate World War II-scale
mobilization against the climate crisis in more than 150 countries. A week
later, several million marched again. The marches had been organized by Fridays
for Future, the youth movement founded by Greta Thunberg, which had been
striking every week all year and drawing tens or even hundreds of thousands of
protests in a given city.
If Thunberg was the patron saint of this new global climate protest army,
Extinction Rebellion was its radical flank. The group announced itself in the
fall of 2018, as Thunberg was first gaining attention in Stockholm, with a
series of protests in London designed to shut down the city center and force a
frank conversation about the state of the climate crisis. “Tell the truth” was
the group’s chief demand.
XR was a self-consciously radical outfit, decentralized in structure, and
blockaded highways and stock exchanges and disrupted subway service, among
other protests. The approach incurred a cost, and much of the British public
turned against the group. But it also helped move the needle of public opinion
on climate somewhat dramatically in Britain and generated a series of
commitments from even the conservative governments under Prime Ministers
Theresa May and Boris Johnson. More recently, its tactics have been embraced
and replicated by a new suite of disruptive climate groups: Insulate Britain,
Scientist Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, which has tossed soup onto museum
canvases.
Then, on New Year’s Eve, XR U.K. made a surprise announcement: “We quit.”
“Despite the blaring alarm on the climate and ecological emergency ringing loud
and clear, very little has changed,” the group declared in a statement. “As we
ring in the New Year, we make a controversial resolution to temporarily shift
away from public disruption as a primary tactic.” Instead, the group declared
it was going to focus on mass mobilization to pressure those in power rather
than shaming or inconveniencing everyday citizens."
Via
Future Crunch:
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https://futurecrunch.com/goodnews-child-mortality-flamingos-mumbai-shamans-dream/>
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
