This Is Not a Drill Quotes

“We see the same dynamic in climate discussions – the outsourcing to the individual to solve systemic problems, the familiar clichés that this will all be solved by individuals recycling, buying reusable coffee cups and possibly downloading an app. Personal ethical choice is undeniably important, for both the drugs trade and the environment. But as thinkers and campaigners, we cannot let these discussions be weaponized to derail the push for systemic change. Those who created these problems will try and make them yours to solve – don’t let them.”
― Extinction Rebellion, This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

“The Cleveland Model, Co-operation Jackson, the shack-dwellers movement, renters’ unions, housing cooperatives, open-source digital manufacture and crowd-sourced city plans are all showing how to reverse-engineer city communities and democracies”
― Extinction Rebellion, This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

“rewilding landscapes so they provide more ecological benefits and require less management, changing diets back to match the seasons, rediscovering non-electronically powered forms of play and increasing community-level productivity and support.”
― Extinction Rebellion, This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

“Like many readers, I had assumed the authority on climate was the IPCC – the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – but it turns out they’ve been consistently underestimating the changes. In 2007 they said an ice-free Arctic was a possibility by 2100. That sounds far enough away to calm the nerves. But real-time measurements are documenting such rapid loss of ice that some of the world’s top climate scientists are saying it could be ice free in the next few years.”
― Extinction Rebellion, This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook