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Articles on Extinction Rebellion
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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.
We need to create a transport system that is zero carbon – and socially just – in only a few years. We just need to recognise that it’s possible.
Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the acts of civil disobedience by climate activist group Extinction Rebellion, and consider what Australia’s responsibility is in the Turkey-Syria conflict.
They’ve been branded as anarchists and ‘fringe-dwellers’, but do Extinction Rebellion protesters really warrant such drastic reactions?
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Research Associate in Social Movements, Keele University
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Emeritus Professor of History, Australian National University
