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Articles on Extinction Rebellion
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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?
Democracy is not perfect. Sometimes it produces policies that are undemocratic and unjust. In those cases, breaking the law may be justified.
The conventional channels for scientists to inform and influence policy are not addressing the climate and ecological crises quickly enough.
Climate deniers have joyously laboured to create a world potentially uninhabitable for our children. Our activism has failed, and rebellion may be the only answer.
The design of the global money game is the real antagonist in the fight against climate change. But the call to arms tends to be directed at the players who have had best luck with the dice.
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Research Associate in Social Movements, Keele University
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Associate Lecturer in Political Ecology, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
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Emeritus professor, University of Melbourne
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Professorial fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Criminal Justice, Charles Sturt University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of International Politics, University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Media Psychology, University of Salford
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Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Geosystem Science, Leader of ECI Climate Research Programme, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Birmingham
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Emeritus Professor of History, Australian National University
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Reader in Philosophy, University of East Anglia
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Lecturer in Conservation Science, University of Kent
