News: ISSUE SIX

WHAT ABOUT CHINA?

March 01, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

Is it reasonable to demand that the UK government take drastic action to address the climate emergency, when China’s emissions far outweigh our own? As someone who works in the media, this is a question I’m asked a lot. It is clear that seismic shifts will have to take place globally if we…

Try a Plant-Based Vegan Diet

March 01, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

A plant-based diet isn’t just good for the environment, but also for our health and animal welfare. I’ve been vegan for 4 years and it’s one of the best life choices I’ve ever made. At first I found it hard to believe that I could live without meat, eggs and dairy. I needed protein…

Leaving a Green Legacy: Having a Natural Burial

March 01, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

I’m not a funeral director, but I’ve wrapped dozens of people in a funeral shroud. It was the same shroud every time; my shroud, and the people I’ve wrapped in it were very much alive. After a demonstration of shroud wrapping, I ask people how it feels. ‘Peaceful,’ they usually tell me. ‘Like being…

PEAKE ACTIVISM

March 01, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

Jessica Townsend meets Maxine Peake, an actress keen to talk about the climate and ecological emergency When Maxine Peake enters the small back room at the National Theatre for our interview, she is tall and glamorous: so far so showbiz. But it’s only when she begins to speak that I’m smitten: this woman is…

The climate, my family and me

March 01, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

Big people helping little people with big climate thoughts and feelings How do we explain the climate and ecological crisis to children when we have challenging feelings of our own to manage? In the second part of this series SARA MAE suggests more ways to tackle this difficult topic. Taking the leap…

As the world watches, Australia burns… coal

March 01, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

In June last year Australia gave final approval for the Adani Carmichael coal mine. It will be the largest coal mine in the country and one of the biggest in the world, producing 2.3 billion tonnes of coal over its lifetime and 130 million tonnes of carbon dioxide every year. The Carmichael mine…

In other news…

March 01, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

Researchers have found that consuming a western-style diet can damage brain function. Healthy volunteers in their 20s spent a week eating foods that were high in fat and added sugars, such as processed foods and ready meals. Volunteers scored worse on memory tests after the week-long diet. Coronavirus, also called COVID-19, is a…

WET’SUWET’EN NATION PIPELINE PROTEST GOES GLOBAL

March 01, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

Protestors in the UK have thrown their weight behind the plight of Indigenous peoples in Canada who are under threat of losing their land to the development of oil pipelines. Young Indigenous people recently occupied the office of Winnipeg-based Liberal MP Dan Vandal’s office to call on the Canadian government to take action…

LEAKED JP MORGAN REPORT LEAVES INVESTORS IN NO DOUBT

March 01, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

An internal report by the world’s number one investor in fossil fuels, JP Morgan, titled Risky business: the climate and macroeconomy, detailsthe ‘potentially catastrophic outcomes’ of ongoing fossil fuel extraction – and investments therein – ‘which might be impossible to reverse’ and ‘where human life as we know it is threatened’. The…

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