Kasper
@KasperDisaster
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Extinction Rebellion London. School librarian. My favourite animals are otters and weasels. I feel distressed and afraid.
London, England
Joined April 2019
In case you forgot Jane Fonda is a badass, she just got arrested yet again for protesting for climate change. Third time's a charm ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #FridaysForFuture
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@KasperDisaster @lhardingwrites Yes definitely. We can talk about the 100 companies responsible for 70% of emissions, we can talk about the billions of dollars & decades spent on denial to stop action for profit, we can talk about corruption, about the link between free market "reforms" & emissions. Loads
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*thumbs up*
@KasperDisaster @lhardingwrites Because people on a Citizens' Assembly don't go into that assembly in a political vacuum. They will go in with ideologies & politics and right now is when we must set the narrative that ends in justice. Also, we might not get a CA and our narrative must take that into account too
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Oh my goodness. Really? That's appalling. It's such a false economy - we build airports to make more money, without factoring in the cost to NHS etc.
@KasperDisaster So sorry to hear that. And NHS are stretched so limiting inhalers due to government cost directive (6 a year). Docs keep asking why I need more... I already can't breathe in my neighbourhood. If I stay elsewhere, I don't even need an inhaler!
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(Thank you for patience, and sorry again for being bad at twitter, and bad at being concice. Hope we can find a middle ground.)
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My friend explains "Beyond Politics" by saying he isn't a politician, scientist or economist: he isn't an expert, he doesn't have the solutions. He's on the street to ask government, business etc "what are YOU going to do about it?".
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Ending the meat industry, aviation industry, oil, fast fashion industries have consequences. Can XR take responsibility for that with a clear, accurate view of what that means for those affected? I don't think we can.
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If genocide was ever seriously proposed by anyone, it would be our moral duty to be anti that. But don't underestimate the moral weight which comes with lots of other neutral-seeming policies.
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(Check out literally every campaign. Ever see the socialists squabble about being trotskyist vs anarcho-communist? Or lgbt community fight about whether we should say "trans" or "trans*"? That's how we lose.)
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It makes it easier for powerful,wealthy companies to use "divide and conquer" techniques - which has been the playbook for fracturing grassroots campaigns since the 60s.
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Specific policies will split the movement (we fight each other over details, rather than pollutors). It increases risk of us being pigeonholed ("a campaign for Basic Income"; "an anti meat campaign")
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If XR is allied to political solutions or policy stances, we lose our universal appeal. "Climate change is happening and it's bad" is something we can all agree on.
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even if we think this is silly compared to the actual danger faced by people living at the equator - we need to be diplomatic about this, because we have to win.
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So, if you're a farmer - say - or a worker on an oil rig, or someone who loves driving, or fashion design, or culinary history, or who drives a taxi or or a lorry. Even non-genocidal environment policies are going to freak you out & act like you're facing a kind of death.
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(& when we remember the definition of a genocide also includes cultural factors - most climate solutions require the west to make profound changes to our culture and behavior. Needed? Yes. Will people like it? They will feel attacked.)
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Even though the argument "flooding will wipe out cities and islands, let's stop flying for fun" is morally compelling, it's still going to be unpopular.
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...luxuries people currently take for granted (like, being into fashion, meat or travel). If any of these are seriously proposed, people will react like their way of life is under threat. Which it kinda is.
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Decarbonisation is going to be very, very difficult. Genocide is evil so let's take that out of the conversation. We will still need to end whole industries, repurpose chunks of land (rewilding, solar farms), change our lifestyles, make limits on...
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@xr_cambridge "Beyond politics" means 'beyond party politics'. Yeah could be argued that should be clearer. Info here:
THREAD - short infographic briefing on Citizens' Assemblies, which are at the heart of the @ExtinctionR third demand - #ExtinctionRebellion #BeyondPolitics #CitizensAssembly #CitizensAssemblies
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