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I think that's the problem. To have any chance of achieving the goals like zero carbon emissions in 5 or even 10 years you have to create an extremely oppressive society and a war time style economy focused on that one goal. Most people realise something should be done but at the same time think "let's see what happens, maybe I am one of the lucky ones".
Just look at todays reaction at the tube station and imagine the reaction when all petrol cars are banned within a year.
sohi-
Interesting that you relate it to war.
WWII and the solidarity of the British experience is something often referenced by the Brexitiers. TBH even older people I know who are anti-Brexit but remember post-war rationing etc. have a certain fondness for that Blitz spirit.
Could that trope be used by climate activists?
I mean if Cameron could run on a we're all in this together platform, why can't that narrative be co-opted by XR/similar?
hugo7
I have a question. The demands of XR are in reality a true revolution of the modern world. To achieve what they say is required to halt climate change and human extinction, every single person will be affected.
The disruptions faced by XR protests will be looked back on as insignificant compared to society after the level of change required.
We're talking about destroying societal construct as it exists in the West.
Someone like @h2o suggest change that adheres to society's expectation of continuing a modicum of normality.
You can't ask for a revolution with no opinion of what life will look like or how people will survive after said revolution. The answer, "well at least you/future generations will be alive" is not enough of an answer.
By getting world leaders to agree that the required change within current political and economical confines is impossible, you're opening up the possibility of absolute panic.
I'm not trying to say the methodology is wrong or that I disagree with it, what I'm trying to say is my perception of XR is trying to create an acknowledgment that we're living in an apocalypse scenario.
I may have lost my train of thought..