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XR feels as if it is trying to co-opt all climate activism, much as the SWP tries to co-opt social movements under the banner of anti-war or anti-fascist protest. Those who criticise XR’s tactics are accused of ignorance or not caring about climate change, even when those offering the criticism are climate activists. Some of XR’s claims are just scaremongering and not supported by science - see this for example https://twitter.com/bbchardtalk/status/1162309729735127040
And I think that shutting down transport nodes in full knowledge that this will hurt working class people and impede the emergency services is a pretty aggressive course of action too.
h2o-
Fair enough. It’s a view I’ve not heard before.
It’s worth noting that XR is unlike the SWP in a couple of significant ways; XR hasn’t been politically partisan, and it has been highly successful.
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Regarding that (pretty wild) claim from Hallam ..... it’s impossible to put any number on this with a degree of certainty.
I imagine he knows what he’s doing (perhaps he thought the timing was right for a controversial headline)?
Crop failures, floods etc account for hundreds of millions of deaths. For this the science is decent (with a whole ton of caveats - as expected). No studies afaik touch on issues of conflict, war, displaced people fighting for land and resource, protectionism and all these secondary consequences. So it is all guesswork.
I would argue it’s stuff worth thinking about. I think Hallam is trying to provoke thought.
miro_o
Could you unpack that?