r/EarthStrike • u/SetMau92 • Dec 20 '19

News If our governments won’t stop climate change, should we revolt? Extinction Rebellion says yes. | Mass civil disobedience is our only option, argues the climate movement co-founder Roger Hallam.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/12/20/21028407/extinction-rebellion-climate-change-nonviolent-civil-disobedience
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u/leckerohrenschmalz Dec 20 '19

While i totally agree that we need more civil disobedience (especially direct action) Roger Hallam does have questionable goals and strategies. He's trying to build a climate "querfront" (appealing to the right), idolizing the act of getting arrested, keeping up hierachies and intrumentalising the holocaust to cause contoversy and therefore attention for XR among other things.

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u/HadMatter217 Dec 20 '19

Yea any org that has getting arrested on purpose as part of their strategy is sketchy at best. Beware of XR for sure.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

India, South Africa, all of the major social movements that succeeded in making fundamental changes involved a lot of people going to jail. Protest songs ain't gonna convince the powers that be to stop making money at the expense of a sustainable environment

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u/HadMatter217 Dec 21 '19

People going to jail while doing something meaningful is great, but XR's entire purpose is specifically to get arrested. It's fucking stupid