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Extinction Rebellion (abbreviated as XR) is a UK-founded global environmental movement, [10] [11] with the stated aim of using nonviolent civil disobedience to compel government action to avoid tipping points in the climate system, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse.
Climate disobedience is a form of civil disobedience, deliberate action intended to critique government climate policy. In 2008, American climate activist Tim DeChristopher posed as a bidder at an auction of US Bureau of Land Management oil and gas leases of public land in Utah, won
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In 2019, activists, most of whom were young people, participated in a global climate strike to criticise the lack of international and political action to address the worsening impacts of climate change. [19] Greta Thunberg, a young activist from Sweden, became a figurehead for the School Strike For Climate movement. [19]
COP29: New controversies threaten to derail one of the most important climate summits in recent history. Stuti Mishra reports from Baku, Azerbaijan
The modern environmental direct action movement in the United Kingdom started in 1991 with the formation of the first UK "Earth First!" group [citation needed] for a protest at Dungeness nuclear power station. Within two years, there were fifty Earth First groups and activists linked with other parties in the road protest movement.
Since climate activists are being disproportionately charged compared to participants in the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, onlookers might believe climate activists are truly a threat to the ...
Insulate Britain is an environmental activist group, founded by six members [5] of the global environmental movement Extinction Rebellion. [6] Their methods slightly differ from that of Extinction Rebellion, but they share the same overall target: to reduce the rate of climate change.