This year could mark a tone shift for the climate movement
—were undertaken by newer, more radical climate groups like Britain’s Just Stop Oil and Germany’s Last Generation.
Then, last week, Extinction Rebellion released a surprising announcement: they were giving up the ghost. “As we ring in the new year, we make a controversial resolution to temporarily shift away from public disruption as a primary tactic,” the group wrote in a New Year’s Eve announcement entitled “We Quit.” Instead, these U.K.-based activists will now focus on organizing large-scale protests without so much focus on breaking the law.
But it’s also hard to avoid the perception that Extinction Rebellion is doing this because, after four years of campaigning, they’ve realized that the strategy simply isn’t working, or that they’ve decided that other, younger groups have gone too far. Civil resistance generated more attention than ever before last year, but the groups shutting down roadways aren’t exactly popular. More people in the U.K.
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