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Extinction Rebellion’s future is far less radical than its past | The Guardian

“The climate protest movement is nowhere near strong enough to force a change of course. Citizens already feel the alarm has been raised, they don’t need further reminders, but a journey into positive, effective action that they feel includes them.” This is a reflection on the achievements and shortcomings of the past 5 years of […]

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Rupert Read – Look back in pride and anger: Five years on from the launch of XR | Brave New Europe

“Great change is coming. The only question is: will it finally be inspired and initiated by us? Or will we let it be brutally imposed upon us by the power of a cruelly disrupted nature?” In this Op-Ed, Rupert Read reflects on the progress made in the climate sphere since the launch of Extinction Rebellion

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Impact of Repressive Laws on Climate Activism | Rebel Justice

In this podcast, Nigel Gould Davis and Rupert Read address the grim reality of repressive laws, and their impact on climate activism, while emphasising the importance of depolarisation for creating progress. Here they also shed light on the disproportionate effect of the climate crisis on women and discuss the profound need for imagination to bring

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Sun, Sea, and Survival

This opinion piece talks about the importance of reconnecting to the consequences that our consumerist lifestyles have on the planet, and the addiction to a lifestyle which is in tension with a growing global awareness that anthropogenic climate change is more and more pressing problem that is already affecting our lives. “Holidays wrecked by summer

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Just Stop Oil in danger of ‘sucking the oxygen’ out of essential climate debate | Evening Standard

Just Stop Oil’s civil disruption tactics could be damaging the campaign to form effective action to combat climate change, it has been claimed. With the UK’s net-zero targets in jeopardy and severe weather events witnessed across the globe, Professor Rupert Read, formerly of Extinction Rebellion, has helped create the Climate Majority Project. The group aims to be an incubator

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Why Scotland must get real on climate crisis | The Scotsman

Huge levels of ice-melt in the Arctic are causing unprecedented amounts of cold fresh water to pour into the north Atlantic, threatening the Gulf Stream, and the lesser-known, but even more important ‘Atlantic Meridian Overturning Circulation’. It is quite possible that the effects will be felt soon – well within a generation – making Britain’s

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The planet is too important to be left to “activists” | ABC Ethics and Religion

Increasing numbers of people around the world are convinced that human civilisation is teetering on the brink, but that our political “leaders” aren’t levelling with us about just how dire the climate outlook is. Quite a few of us are beginning to imagine collapse. And yet, for the most part, the responses available to individuals

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