Having been involved a fair bit in Extinction Rebellion (XR) in its early days, I found myself gravitating towards different sorts of actions after the movement’s peak. As I’ve written about before, a lot of XR folks didn’t recognise the wins they’d achieved. They had demanded that councils and organisations declare a climate emergency, and many did. The government set the groundbreaking net zero target by 2050. It wasn’t the impossible 2025 target that XR was calling for and so they didn’t ...
Published on February 19, 2024 05:24