Extinction Rebellion’s ‘apolitical’ stance deprives it of allies, and leaves the movement vulnerable to co-option.
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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.
Populism focuses on charismatic individuals. Environmentalism is all about collective action on collective solutions. How do they come together?
The courts have provided little guidance on whether politically-motivated crimes are better or worse than crimes from ‘common criminals’.
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Research Fellow in Industrial Decarbonisation Policy, University of Sussex
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Lecturer in International Public and Social Policy, University of Bristol
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Lecturer in Global Sustainable Development, Nottingham Trent University
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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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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus professor, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Criminology, Edith Cowan University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Media Psychology, University of Salford
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Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Geosystem Science, Director of Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Birmingham
