plato is strong cause play is for the beethoven 202250th anniversary here. here. protesting to save the planet for months the global environmental movement extinction rebellion has been making headlines calling for political leaders to act on the climate emergency the activists are willing to do whatever it takes to make that happen at the ready. to lose my living he feels actually a small price to pay. back. this movement here in the

middle of a city where people need to work to get home i don't think it's good for the famous scientists a long enough so extinction rebellion they really need to fight it out public reaction is divided how far should protests be allowed to go. to. make it a little bit to take a. december 2900 the annual un climate change conference is underway in madrid. representatives from $200.00 countries have come together to negotiate agreements on effective ways to limit global warming. that. was just outside the conference center thousands are calling for immediate action to avert what they see as an impending catastrophe among the most radical protesters

are members of extinction rebellion otherwise known as x. are. 7 lovely people. skinner wrath or from the u.k. as a founding member of extinction rebellion she spends months on the road for the cause . normally. she'd be out on the streets with the protesters. but here in madrid she's got an appointment with the summit president it's a 1st for x r i was really nervous i was nervous excited too. i feel the weight of responsibility in trying to. build a relationship that can go on and thrive and create change you know they so far extinction rebellion has focused on mass demonstrations now the group is exploring diplomatic options as well. in october $29000.00 the movement staged

a series of protests in london that caused widespread disruption. the aim of the demonstration was to get the british government to take urgent action to tackle climate change thousands of activists camped out in the city center stina wrath or was there too. couldn't lay down and that this happened i couldn't let this happen. as a mother. i said to alltel i say that i'm not going to. lay down and roll over unless this violence and destruction. that's why she came to london to take part in the 2 week protest before she came to organize discussion panels bring activists together and give speeches. we want to move the government to meet our. budget we're not being on reasonable midway saying

feast won't trust he's listening to the scientists the academics the resurgence this civilization is in danger of collapsing. and. what are we going to do about it together. skinner thor's activism is motivated by very personal reasons. i have 3 children and i feel a deep sense of responsibility for. this well being something a place where they can have a meaningful life where they can enjoy the abundance of nature and live in harmony with their fellow kindred human souls it's happening now and the projection for the next 5 years is that the middle of us will likely become barren and we are looking at that to mean 660000000 to 1000000000 refugees

and displaced people and we are looking at food systems collapsing we are looking at climate shocks in our bread basket. full of those who support extinction rebellion believe that climate change has become a climate breakdown that threatens the future of humanity and that it's imperative that action be taken immediately to reverse this trend. their concerns are backed by scientific evidence. climate change it's happening i studied it for 4 years and. everyone needs to get on board and we need to start the science is out there for anyone who wants to see it it's there for everyone. x

r differs from the more moderate fridays for future movement and that its members openly advocate civil disobedience to call attention to their demands. they want their cause to be impossible to ignore. what some may consider breaking the law they see as an exercise in grassroots democracy. as citizens we have the right as a protest we have the right to really voice that the world needs to change. the activists have 3 core demands 1st governments must tell the truth about the dangers of global warming and officially declare a climate emergency. 2 second action must be taken immediately. the goal of achieving climate neutrality that is net 0 c o 2 emissions by 2025 must have top priority. 3rd create a truly democratic political process bird cheeping these goals and

a citizens' assembly. governments would have to take the assembly's recommendations into account. you no need to marry anybody from want to sion because actually in order to meet the crisis everything has to change and not just change it has to be completely rewired and transform and what it means is democracy is why didn't is the plan and it's about the devolution and the centralization of power. on the 1st day of the protest activists in london glued themselves to scaffolding the police had to use a solvent to free them before they could be arrested. it was the was many extinction rebellion protesters actually trying to get themselves arrested was the more people taken into custody they argue the greater the disruption to the

system was that also conveys a message that so many people are willing to fight for climate change there must be something to it. during the 29000 london protests about 1400 of some 30000 activists were taken into custody most held only briefly. at about the same time the london high court ruled that police efforts to stop the protests were unlawful. after that dozens of demonstrators sued the police for false arrest. extinction rebellion says it now has more than 350 groups and 50 different countries. in new york last year they brought traffic to a standstill. in paris they spilled fake blood down steps near the eiffel tower.

zurich they poured biodegradable dye into the river to call attention to their concerns about pollution. environmental activists of all ages took part. there are about $120.00 x. our chapters in germany including 4 in berlin. parallel to the october demonstration in london an extended protest was held in the german capital police at about 1000 people blocked a busy roundabout causing serious traffic disruptions. activist alex flick was there recording of the berlin protests. below we are a muslim abodes we're going to bring some of this is going on in front of. the barman for ministry.

a month later moved to berlin from prague and 2017 on his way to meet a colleague. who slick who joined extinction rebellion in march 29000 shoots videos of protests that are later posted on social media. he also takes part in the demonstrations himself. after the rebellion weekly hot in october of people realized the topic itself because before people didn't know about the scale of climate crisis so i think nowadays. because we kind of shocked the media and got the media attention i think they're coming now too because they're to us because they're curious and they want to participate in any way they can i guess if they haven't had time. to slick some point with it is with mariana bloom who organizes onboarding sessions there and the information events that introduce and

explain the movement to new members and. it's run us over about one can bloom have spoken several times they've never met you know her sisters or. together they watch alex crucifix latest video there. is the 1st that was it is it was like yeah. it's really the wrong. world i think. and do you have reactions on the on this post for example oh they're oh my oh oh they're they're doing fine. some people a few times well. it's really just the trolls nothing new there are. so many people who just don't want to have fun like when we do the book but if you sit down to do this you can just like freeze there you know the answer you know you have to move you have to cheer up. you know extinction rebellion says its campaign is

a political wake up so that's in the some time that we've been criticised for that and what's interesting is that it comes from the far right and the far left school or the left to say we're not radical enough and they accuse us of not being sufficiently actually capitalist the. how big that it's not out of the capitalism is could take over and we are guided by the principle that we will do what we have to do to achieve our goal that's a good seed this act and that is to create a future with living for everyone is just that it has nothing to do with politics left over right that's what makes the place they seem to. be out of bloom is a professional cabaret performer who donates her time to extinction rebellion. took his commitment a step further. that's my profession for

rebelling week i quit job. then during about a week. being in a field being in the action and shooting everything and posting so. i was super busy when i was the full time job while doing the running room if someone doesn't care about environment at all it's just like bit like suicidal you know. the latest report not really going to the latest reports it could be even in like 20 years with shortages of food water and whatever. you know we would be stupid not to do anything against them in the 1st place. mommy on a boom is on her way to host an orientation event for new members similar events are held in several different german cities and there's no need to register in advance. because like is going to film tonight session with his mobile phone. go or you know all. of you during the evening the latest climate research is

presented and the movement score demands are outlined. politicians must declare a climate emergency carbon neutrality must be achieved by 2025 at a citizen's assembly must be created to address environmental problem. these assemblies will be informed by experts the out of people from the auto industry are also welcome but it won't be the people from the auto and energy industries can lobby the ministry for months on end with environmentalist only there on occasion market and i'm eyeing a lab. x. our members should hear to 10 principles they include no blaming and shaming. members are not allowed to criticize other individual it's like people who drive s.u.v.s or eat meat they must focus on the system as a whole can seep in the most one can then cut another principle is nonviolence

extinction rebellion us for calm. the month we welcome everyone just as they are but if all you want to do is throw rocks all scream at the police then exxon is not for you for example we would never attack coal miners school or even criticize that . in fact we'd like to see coal miners join us when we hold sit down strikes. on selfish quite some that's not lucky and they missed us he went on the movement has a decentralized leadership structure. that has a sword to him usually there's a boss over head who tells people what to do. is get but we don't have a leadership hierarchy and. this is stroud town in southwestern england that's home to about 13000 people. it's environmentally friendly culture has been attracting free thinkers and artistic types for many years. it was here that extinction rebellion was founded in october

28th seen by about 20 activists who were frustrated that their demands for reforms were being ignored so they decided to adopt a radical protest program that included acts of civil disobedience. skin around thought lives here with her family. rural life helps her to cope with the stress of taking part in protests. there's a restore ration that happens to me at home with my children being with them cooking and listening to them but also in my god. and in the woods that we live next to and. yeah so it's time. to put my feet back in to feel as much actually and what feels like the reason. the members of extinction

rebellion have learned through experience that taking time off is important to deal with the physical and psychological strain. we have a very weak culture that we have periods of big active intense activity that we we are off to rest and recuperate and regenerate and reflect on what that activity meant for us what moved you know what the questions it has left us with. a lot of people in stroud are environmental activists it's a tried community. gail bradbrook a founding member of extinction rebellion has lived here with her 2 sons since 2006 a case of that she's been committed to protecting the environment most of her life by.

living sustainably is possible but it's only part of the solution together with others and stroud bradbrook manages a community garden but to stop climate change she says require much more than actions of individuals we know that 50 percent of emissions come from 10 percent of the population so it's really important that people with the biggest footprints when i think about what they do and how much they fly and what their return or me included. in that but we have a a system that's based on focus on profit rather than purpose and therefore whatever you do as long as you can get away with it you'll create pollution you'll hurt people you'll hurt the planet so something has to change systemic way here just simply changing how you consume start going to be enough. gail bradbrook believes

that everyone without exception must take part in the effort to reduce global warming. for some that may mean leading a simpler life. i don't think we need all this stuff that we've all got we just need what's next to ours and i don't want talking about you know going back to the caves and and live in really rough lives but slowing down enough to appreciate what we have. i mean isn't this heaven it's beautiful. yeah just. i think right to have part of my life just be smaller again and i don't know how many more seasons are see i think the risk of a mass extinction as bad as the permian mass extinction is significant. gail bradbrook who has a ph d. in molecular biology quit her last job to work full time for x

r. the organization pacer $800.00 pounds a month to help cover her expenses. and although she's a founding member of the movement she doesn't consider herself a leader. leadership is something everybody needs to do next thing she rebellion you've got to have a leadership perspective on your own life like what is it when you look at the whole thing so if you're in a group you're not just thinking about your own role in that group you're thinking about how well the groups go in and maybe at some time somebody will come who's better do not jump the man i can retire. to get. in the fight to save the climate bradbrook is also willing to resort to drastic measures on occasion last october she broke a window during a demonstration at the department for transport in london. but overall we know that civil disobedience is something that works in the world and that's necessary so sometimes you kind of have to lift the focus on. the department for transport and

they are not spending the money they should on cycling for example they're driving for with a huge infrastructure problem project called hate as to which is a high speed rail which might sound great but actually it's an airport shuttle service to expand aviation and it's going to be the biggest deforestation of the u.k. since world war one for some people they think you've broken a window it's violent but a minor property damage to my mind is not it's not violent nobody was at any risk so i don't consider that violent. the hammer used to break the glass was borrowed. after it was confiscated bradbrook sent the owner a replacement. in her eyes violence is what government and industry are doing to the planet the harm being inflicted on the environment is a measurable also financially speaking. bradbrook thinks the 27000 pounds worth of

damage she caused during her protest pales in comparison. because of the willingness to damage property some have criticised extinction rebellion members says eco terrorists journalist robin whitlock was a self a member of the movement for several weeks. now whitlock is calling for moderation in the climate debate he's especially concerned about controversial remarks made by x r co-founder roger how. they seem to be giving the impression that you know if we don't act. and turn things around within the next 12 years then we'll be talking so the one apocalyptic scenario which kind of life on earth it's wide tires and all that kind of thing and that is just really kind of productive all it does is scare people when it just lock people into

a sense of panic and if you're in a sense of panic then you can think clearly about how to tackle the problem that clearly. roger hallam is known to be outspoken and sometimes that's got him into trouble even among x. our members who recently said he wanted to quote draw around through to ensure that . there were people inside your own organization or said when a house is on fire you have to break down the door. column was also sharply criticized for remarks in which he appeared to downplay the holocaust. this intentional was to provoke and got some media attention by saying that the future could be even worse that the whole course i mean he said that it's ok another. human history but obviously like for germany it's the most sensitive topic there is i figured people's not very thoughtful would he do it and there is stupid

. afterwards x.r. chapters in germany and britain condemned hallums remarks and the organization is carrying out an internal review so concerning abortion meanwhile extinction rebellion is working hard to put its core principles into practice these include the creation of a citizen's assembly that would advise politicians on how best to deal with the climate crisis then you have a group discussion the assembly would be a grassroots form of deliberative democracy these 3 demands i go through this very quick 1st of all we select people randomly ok and stratified randomly is there going to select people all over the country but by for example according to the population german population for example social class a region and gender so joe map is responsible for coordinating the citizens assembling tonight he's explaining how it will work so that there aren't many

people here because many of the activists were at a fridays for a future demonstration earlier in the day. so we have all of this is new to alex because like. another experts will provide scientific data to the assembly which will be used to develop climate protection measures to be presented to the government for execution that. they would have to sit in one table and they would work as one team. human society you know it's not like a left were so right or alter or worse is a boost. we have one goal and they have to work on the solution. as the 29000 u.n. climate change conference true to a close in december in madrid the delegates failed to make much progress on key issues i but extinction rebellion continued to protest i their actions increasingly provocative. started out to support people inside the city.

but skinner wrath or was focused on other things in madrid. after lengthy negotiations extinction rebellion made an important diplomatic breakthrough at the races are still we hear from meeting with the president cavendish me a call and we to make relationship and ask. how we can let's get this coming here for the next 26 and just get. carlina schmidt was not only the summit president she's also chile's environment minister. ringback conference was originally scheduled to be held in santiago but was moved to madrid because of widespread political unrest in chile. skinner rothera was a bit nervous before the meeting which would be the 1st between an x r activist and

a senior politician. on. the camera team was not allowed to film a session which lasted for more than an hour. afterward carlina schmidt declined to comment but skinner rathore was happy to talk to reporters. he really supported will be doing that. they understand the story he needs to shift because the urgency is not you know to be out to see. her meeting with climate conference president carlina schmidt got a lot of media coverage. in iraq are described as a major step forward. and they know that the toss in the enormity of the often head is not something that can be done in isolation in in crisis like this. it's new this is new. movement 5 cars coming into place this is like this is

completely new i. mean i think the summit didn't achieve much mostly because key proposals were blocked by major emitters including brazil the u.s. and australia. time to start preparing for the next climate conference. on made excited the bill begin to build a team. around the cult of the club and he thinks i know about but there's so much what to do between now and then so i think one day at a time and yeah. the next conference will be held this november in glasgow the activists also want to meet directly with senior politicians their own. extinction rebellion maybe moving toward a more diplomatic approach when it comes to tackling climate change.

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