After Extinction Rebellion, Australian politicians are on notice – change is coming

If I were in London over Easter I would have been at Waterloo Bridge or Oxford Circus or Marble Arch, the protest sites for the Extinction Rebellion.

Extinction Rebellion protesters in London’s Hyde Park. XR
activists are staging acts of civil disobedience to force a
global conversation about climate change.

Extinction Rebellion (XR) is a movement of tens of thousands of people that has for a week blocked traffic across the UK in simple but powerful acts of civil disobedience. These have ranged from activists gluing themselves to a pink boat in Oxford Circus to a string quartet playing in the middle of Waterloo Bridge. The aim is to force a national and global conversation about climate changes.

Their demands are for governments to tell the truth about climate change, to reduce carbon pollution to zero by 2025 and to create a citizens’ assembly to oversee the whole process.

Read the story from The Guardian by Nicky Ison - “After Extinction Rebellion, Australian politicians are on notice – change is coming.”