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Activists on the front lines of the climate movement have done things like destroy the encampments of loggers in forests, block roads, climb onto planes and motorway gantries and bridges, throw paint on the glass pane protecting art and occupy offices. I have never done any of those things and possibly never will, but I still consider myself a climate activist.
Activists on the front lines of the climate movement have done things like destroy the encampments of loggers in forests, block roads, climb onto planes and motorway gantries and bridges, throw paint on the glass pane protecting art and occupy offices. I have never done any of those things and possibly never will, but I still consider myself a climate activist.
I have participated a little with Extinction Rebellion in coordinated activities doing mass calling to Barclays Bank, mass online commenting, supporting at one of their planning meetings, and marching with placards. But not even that, in my view, is necessary to be an activist.
Just sharing a few things on social media, raising the issue of climate change with family, friends and work colleagues, signing petitions, and donating to activist organizations, arguably makes me an activist.
Greta Thunberg has said that we need billions of activists and I don´t think she is anticipating that billions of people want to lock themselves to trees or tunnel under a motorway for days. If you believe that we should have less fossil fuels and less climate change, then you too can help. Speak up in your work place, write an email to your local MP, and don´t be afraid to mention climate change online, or at the dinner table. Well done, you are now an activist.
The more the better and if you do want to go on protest marches, block the construction of a new oil pipeline, lead campaigns, and spend hundreds of hours on this, good for you. If you prefer to share one story on twitter and then have a few conversations with friends and leave it at that, then thanks for helping out as well. Pensioners can be activists, parents with children can be activists, people struggling to pay the bills can be activists, everyone can. You don’t have to have pink hair or dreadlocks to be an activist.
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Activists on the front lines of the climate movement have done things like destroy the encampments of loggers in forests, block roads, climb onto planes and motorway gantries and bridges, throw paint on the glass pane protecting art and occupy offices. I have never done any of those things and possibly never will, but I still consider myself a climate activist.
I have participated a little with Extinction Rebellion in coordinated activities doing mass calling to Barclays Bank, mass online commenting, supporting at one of their planning meetings, and marching with placards. But not even that, in my view, is necessary to be an activist.
Just sharing a few things on social media, raising the issue of climate change with family, friends and work colleagues, signing petitions, and donating to activist organizations, arguably makes me an activist.
Greta Thunberg has said that we need billions of activists and I don´t think she is anticipating that billions of people want to lock themselves to trees or tunnel under a motorway for days. If you believe that we should have less fossil fuels and less climate change, then you too can help. Speak up in your work place, write an email to your local MP, and don´t be afraid to mention climate change online, or at the dinner table. Well done, you are now an activist.
The more the better and if you do want to go on protest marches, block the construction of a new oil pipeline, lead campaigns, and spend hundreds of hours on this, good for you. If you prefer to share one story on twitter and then have a few conversations with friends and leave it at that, then thanks for helping out as well. Pensioners can be activists, parents with children can be activists, people struggling to pay the bills can be activists, everyone can. You don’t have to have pink hair or dreadlocks to be an activist.
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I Am An Activist
Activists on the front lines of the climate movement have done things like destroy the encampments of loggers in forests, block roads, climb onto planes and motorway gantries and bridges, throw pai…
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