Roger Hallam
https://www.facebook.com/100003329775307/posts/5231503393637268/

An Open Letter to XR after the April Rebellion.

In 2018, along with a small group of other people, I helped to co found Extinction Rebellion. I presented the first paper to these activists, arguing a Rebellion against the British government over its inaction on the climate crisis was now viable and necessary. I created the mobilisation plans for the first year of XR. I wrote the initial strategic design for the April 2019 Rebellion.

Let’s remind ourselves. XR was set up to create a rebellion against the British government. This means that your actions have to take a serious and credible aim at this objective. XR was set up to tell the truth and to act as if that truth was real, regardless of the consequences. XR is neither aiming at this objective, nor telling the truth.

The truth is two fold:
First, we are facing global social collapse. The 2022 IPCC report predicts up to 700 million refugees by 2030, in eight year’s time. And that is just Africa. Half the people in Africa.
Second “we have to act quickly” as Sir David King says – if we don’t start winning in the next three years we condemn humanity to hell for hundreds of thousands of years.

This situation is totally and utterly unique. Any analysis which is based upon the past has no purchase on the next decade. The unimaginable is about to happen and the world will never be the same again. The notion that XR is a “social movement”, an “environmental campaign”, a “network of activists”, completely misses the point. It is a mad dash to save our children and the lives of billions of the poorest people on the planet.

Nothing. Nothing at all compares to this.

You are failing because you are stuck in your fears and therefore you cannot bring yourselves to create the level of disruption necessary to force the change we need in the time we have. You have the numbers, you could win, but you are all hedging. To succeed you will have to challenge your family relationships, risk your job, and give up your social status. You will have to resist to the point of arrest and imprisonment. And not stop.

You are failing because you are not telling yourselves this truth. There is an abject failure of leadership. True leadership is about speaking unpopular truth. A movement that rejects such leadership falls into inertia and disintegration.

There is no excuse. You have heard the Heading for Extinction talk. You know. You may delude yourselves on this, but there is no going back, even if your privileges temporally give you that option. In truth you have no choice.

There are many reasons to step up. But the most important reason is to save yourselves from agonising guilt and shame – the utter self contempt of knowing, a few years from now, that you could have resisted, but you chose not to. The most important thing in this life is your own self respect – abiding by the voice of your inner conscience. You may pretend this is not the case, but it may be good to consult thousands of years of wisdom the subject. True “self interest” is always to act for the Good not for the Self.

So what to do?

Assume fearless leadership. Stand up in your XR meeting and make a declaration. Either people commit to the central purpose of XR – to engage in ongoing civil disobedience or leave to join one of the many organisations which are going through the motions as the world burns. A clear and coherent strategy will encourage many more to join. Everyone sits down, as a community of resistance, and organises putting their lives into order – speak to their family and their boss. As people do when they prepare to enter a war. Because this is a war and we need a nonviolent army.

Some people may not be happy with what I have written. I am not here to be popular. We have to be honest with each other.

I dearly love people in XR, I speak and talk with many of you every week. You are very beautiful people, without a doubt. But beautiful people do terrible things. In Nazi Germany “nice” people kissed their children each morning before going off to murder millions of people. At the moment you are doing the same.

The situation is deadly serious. I am deadly serious. Every day counts.

Crazy how a guy self immolates in the country's capital in front of the Supreme Court on Earth Day in protest of climate change inaction and it's barely a blip on the media and social radar

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Man Lit Himself On Fire In Apparent Earth Day Climate Change Protest
https://theblast.com/223023/man-lights-himself-on-fire-protest/

A man set himself on fire in front of the Supreme Court building in Washington D.C. on Earth Day in what appears to be a move to protest climate change, judging by his social media posts.

The police identified the man as Wynn Bruce, 50, of Boulder, Colorado. He reportedly died of his injuries after being airlifted to a hospital following the incident. The court said through CBS News that the man set himself on fire in the plaza in front of the Supreme Court building.

Although the outlet did not disclose the man’s motivation for setting himself on fire, it appears to be due to climate change.

Banana follow-up

Lokalni potraviny budou vitezem ukrajinskyho konfliktu

Válka na Ukrajině hodila slupku pod nohy ekvádorským pěstitelům banánů - Ekolist.cz
https://ekolist.cz/cz/zpravodajstvi/zpravy/valka-na-ukrajine-hodila-slupku-pod-nohy-ekvadorskym-pestitelum-bananu

#transitionPain

At uz umyslne nebo ne, jednou se k sustainability dostanem

Indonésie zakáže vývoz palmového oleje. Na exportu ze země je přitom závislý celý svět, jelikož je jeho největším producentem. Zároveň se jedná o nejpoužívanější olej, který se nachází zhruba v polovině všech výrobků v supermarketech. Rozhodnutí může vést k dalšímu růstu cen.

Další potravinová rána pro svět, olejovou krizi nečekaně zhorší i Indonésie - iDNES.cz
https://www.idnes.cz/ekonomika/zahranicni/indonesie-palmovy-olej-rust-cen-potravin-zakaz-vyvozu-odlesnovani.A220424_091606_eko-zahranicni_idvs

TADEAS: pest removal in progress, nevidim problem :)

After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis | bruno-latour.fr
http://www.bruno-latour.fr/node/907.html

After the harrowing experience of the pandemic and the lockdowns, both states and individuals have been searching for ways to exit the crisis, hoping to return as soon as possible to 'the world as it was before the pandemic'. But there is another way to learn the lessons of this ordeal: as inhabitants of the earth, we may not be able to exit the lockdowns so easily after all, since the global health crisis is embedded in another larger and more serious crisis - that brought about by the New Climatic Regime. Learning to live in lockdown might be an opportunity to be seized: a dress-rehearsal for the climate mutation, an opportunity to understand at last where we - inhabitants of the earth - live, what kind of place 'earth' is and how we will be able to orient ourselves and exist in this world in the years to come. We might finally be able to explore the land in which we live, begin to understand the true nature of the climate mutation we are living through and discover what kind of freedom is possible - a freedom differently situated and differently understood.

In this sequel to Down to Earth, Bruno Latour provides a compass for this necessary re-orientation of our lives, outlining the metaphysics of confinement and deconfinement with which we will all be obliged to come to terms by the strange times in which we are living.

Kabel z Maroka do UK

The world's longest subsea cable will send clean energy from Morocco to the UK [update]
https://electrek.co/2022/04/21/the-worlds-longest-subsea-cable-will-send-clean-energy-from-morocco-to-the-uk/

Loňské léto bylo v Evropě nejteplejší v dějinách měření. Nová zpráva varuje před klimatickou změnou — ČT24 — Česká televize
https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/veda/3477090-lonske-leto-bylo-v-evrope-nejteplejsi-v-dejinach-mereni-nova-zprava-varuje-pred

https://climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2021

Loňské léto bylo v Evropě nejteplejší od začátku měření, teploty byly o jeden stupeň Celsia vyšší než průměr. Uvádí to nová zpráva evropské služby Copernicus, která monitoruje stav klimatu. Počasí v letních měsících doprovázely silné kontrasty. Zatímco jihoevropské státy v létě 2021 zaznamenaly rekordní počet extrémně horkých dnů a v Itálii a Španělsku padly dokonce teplotní rekordy, západ Evropy se potýkal se silnými dešti a záplavami. „Rok 2021 byl rokem extrémů, včetně nejteplejšího léta v Evropě, vln veder ve Středomoří, záplav a větrného sucha v západní Evropě,“ vyjmenoval ředitel služby Copernicus Carlo Buontempo.

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