Extinction Rebellion

1. Tell the truth
2. Act on the truth

Precautionary principle: People want to wait for certainty before acting on the problem (of course once you're absolutely certain, the thing has already happened)

A Scientist's opinion   A paper     A review of papers      The IPCC
------------------------- More Conservative ----------------------->

Whenever we check present observations against past predictions, the pessimists seem to be the closest.

• What Lies Beneath: The Understatement of existential Climate Risk (2018)
• Hot House Earth (2018)
• Deep Adaptation (2018)

Climate change is worse than cause and effect: It has all of these feedback loops that make it worse exponentially.

Shifting the Overton window is useful (Hence Extinction rather than Climate Change).

• De-Growth vs the Green New Deal

Questions

• Climate delayers
• Why are people addicted to cars
• Green new deal any good?