#ExtinctionRebellion had a measurable impact exactly 4 years ago:
“The sudden surge in concern is undoubtedly boosted by the publicity raised for the environmental cause by Extinction Rebellion, with the pressure group having staged mass protests in London over the course of April, and activism from Greta Thunberg during the same period.” #ccmovement
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/06/05/concern-environment-record-highs
The '3.5% rule': How a #SmallMinority can change the world
“Overall, nonviolent campaigns were twice as likely to succeed as violent campaigns: they led to political change 53% of the time compared to 26% for the violent Protests." #ccmovement
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
Study: Activism and #CivilDisobedience help communicate the #Science of Climate Change
“A group of the world's top climate change biologists have published an editorial highlighting how #GlobalMovements of civil disobedience focused on climate change are playing an important role in increasing #PublicAwareness and engagement with issues of climate change.” #ccmovement
https://phys.org/news/2020-01-civil-disobedience-science-climate.html
A group of the world's top climate change biologists, including Professor Pete Smith from the University of Aberdeen, have published an editorial highlighting how global movements of civil disobedience focused on climate change are playing an important role in increasing public awareness and engagement with issues of climate change.
#CivilRightsProtests Have Never Been Popular
“As The Washington Post noted, only 22 percent of all Americans approved of the Freedom Rides, and only 28 percent approved of the sit-ins. The #VastMajority of Americans—60 percent—had “unfavorable” feelings about the March on Washington. As FiveThirtyEight notes, in 1966, 63 percent of Americans had a negative opinion of Martin Luther King.” #ccmovement
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/colin-kaepernick/541845/
#JustStopOil: do radical protests turn the public away from a cause? Here’s the #Evidence
"Pollsters concluded that the “sudden surge in concern is undoubtedly boosted by the publicity raised for the environmental cause by #ExtinctionRebellion”. There’s also evidence that home insulation has risen up the policy agenda since #InsulateBritain’s protests." #ccmovement
Climate diplomacy is hopeless, says author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline
"From 2018 onwards, #ExtinctionRebellion and the climate strike movement brought tens of thousands on to the streets. But even as #PublicOpinion swung behind their calls for radical change, emissions and investments in fossil fuels continued to grow." #ccmovement
Debunking the #Myths Behind #Nonviolent Civil Resistance
"Inclusion of 19th century (1800–99) cases and previously unanalyzed cases from the 20th century reveals that nonviolent campaigns experienced a 48% rate of success, whereas campaigns that adopted #UnarmedViolence were 61% successful, campaigns utilizing reactive unarmed violence were 60% successful, and 30% of fully violent campaigns were successful." #ccmovement
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0896920520913982
I back #Saboteurs who have acted with courage and coherence, but I won’t blow up a pipeline.
"I cannot say that Malm is wrong, and that non-violent action is more likely to succeed. After all, none of us have been here before. [...] My own belief is that our best hope is to precipitate a #SocialTipping: widening the concentric circles of those committed to systemic change until a critical threshold is reached, that flips the status quo." #ccmovement
Should we blow up pipelines? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th April 2023 There’s a fundamental principle that should apply to every conflict. Don’t urge others to do what you are not prepared to do yourself. How many wars would be fought if the presidents or prime ministers who declared them were obliged…
Will XR’s tilt towards the #Mainstream pay off?
"The #NonDisruptive approach had “brought businesses on to the streets who might not have come otherwise”, said Ben Tolhurst, a director at Business Declares, a non-profit network." #ccmovement
https://www.ft.com/content/ca066319-746a-4214-983e-03e74931168d
PM Modi calls for #MassMovement in global fight against climate change
"Modi said that an idea becomes a mass movement when it moves from "#DiscussionTables to #DinnerTables" as he called for people's participation and #Collective efforts in combating climate change." #ccmovement
Jason Hickel on Twitter 🧵
"I don't know how to say this in a punchy, eloquent way... but the climate and environmentalist movements need to get very serious about creating #Alliances with #LabourMovements and #WorkingClass political formations. And fast..." #ccmovement
Climate change protest: a single radical gets more #MediaCoverage than thousands of marchers
"it’s not clear that @XR_UK’s new approach actually worked. Certainly if the idea was to attract more or better headlines, the results seem underwhelming." #ccmovement
The #Majority of the public believe #Protests rarely, if ever, make a difference
"The vast majority of Britons (76%) say they’ve never taken part in a public protest and nearly eight in ten of those people (78%) say they are not very likely, or not at all likely, to do so." #ccmovement
Fire and concrete: will France’s model of #RadicalClimateProtest catch on?
"This month, Andreas Malm said in an interview it was France that was seeing the most exciting developments in environmental protest." #ccmovement
The Former Extinction Rebellion Campaigners Rallying A Climate Majority
"If the world is ever going to get serious on climate, it will be because a #MassMovement of citizen action insists on it. The #ClimateMajorityProject exists to grow this wave of action; helping the mass movement to become aware of itself." #ccmovement
Governments show time and again they won’t deliver adequate climate solutions of their own accord. If the world is ever going to get serious on climate, it will be because a mass movement of citizen action insists on it. Except, no such mobilisation of citizens yet exists across the global north. Accordingly, nothing like sufficient […]
Frank Gresslin
