Disruption caused by activists blockading roads is virtually non-existent compared to climate change.
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By introducing tactics of direct action and digital mobilisation, Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion have renewed the climate movement and accelerated climate action.
The film showed how a country can win militarily, but still lose the battle for ‘hearts and minds’.
Climate activists don’t have to be popular to achieve their goals.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he is ‘listening’ to a woman quietly holding a climate action sign outside parliament. But politicians have a vested interest in downplaying disruptive protests.
Climate hypocrisy matters for governments – but not individuals.
Symbolic gesture or assertion of state power? Declaring a climate ‘emergency’ walks a fine line between hopeful rhetoric and risk to democracy.
Journalists are better at covering the climate crisis but there’s still room for improvement.
Ordinary British people proposed bolder climate measures than anything politicians have so far dared to suggest.
Extinction Rebellion’s ‘apolitical’ stance deprives it of allies, and leaves the movement vulnerable to co-option.
An ecological economist involved in the new bill backed by Extinction Rebellion explains why it is needed for a safe and just future.
Thousands of Americans took part in the first Earth Day 50 years ago. What has changed since then?
Extinction Rebellion impostors have called humans ‘a disease’.
You can’t demand rebellion for long without inviting the suspicion of the state.
Politicians who refuse to listen to popular demands have a reason to be concerned.
While celebrating the millions on streets in London and Vancouver, we must not forget the sacrifices of people in the Global South.
People get angry far more often than they rebel. And rebellions rarely become revolutions. An expert on the French Revolution explains why today’s protest movements are different.
Historical perspective can offer much in this time of ecological crisis,. Many historians are reinventing their traditional scales of space and time to tell different kinds of stories that recognise the unruly power of nature.
Extinction Rebellion take inspiration from history for their tactics – but today’s police service is much harder to overwhelm than it used to be.
Extinction Rebellion isn’t trying to win support or inspire people – it’s trying to force action.
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Former Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Lecturer in Sustainability, University of Manchester
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Senior Lecturer in International Public and Social Policy, University of Bristol
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Reader in Political Sociology, Aston University
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Associate Senior Lecturer, Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent
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Professor of Environmental Studies, Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Chair in Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
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PhD Candidate, Climate Activism, University of York
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Research Fellow, Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, University of Surrey
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Professor of Human Ecology, Lund University
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Post-doc researcher in Ecological Economics, University of Leeds
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Reader/ Associate professor in Media Psychology, University of Salford
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Senior Research Fellow in Psychology, Cardiff University
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Postdoctoral associate, University of Sussex
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Tourism, Sport and Society, Lincoln University, New Zealand