Native Plant Conservation Campaign News: Extinction Rebellion movement confronts species loss and climate change through civil disobedience.

April 23, 2019

 

A rapidly growing global environmental movement is rising to challenge the world’s governments to take substantive, science-based and rapid action to stop climate change and mass extinction.

 

We have not yet heard much about the Extinction Rebellion  in the United States, but it is only a matter of time. In June of last year, the movement consisted of 10 people in the UK. Now demonstrations are drawing thousands who block roads and stage protests in numerous countries to call for action to tackle the looming environmental disasters facing this planet. The global network is restructuring as their reach extends to millions of members worldwide. The organization has trained campaigners in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Ghana, Poland and other countries.

 

Using the “if not us who, if not now when” call to action, they seek to create an “Extinction Rebellion” to confront global environmental emergencies through civil disobedience. Find out more at their website or on Facebook.

 

Learn more in the Guardian UK

 

 

Photo. March for Science, San Francisco (c) Emily Roberson