Extinction Rebellion

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00177-3

Belatedly but also sounds like you'd get some mileage (ha!) from the Slow living movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_living

If interested, a couple of events over the next week or so for your diaries:

https://facebook.com/events/s/bp-must-fall/503935470462030/?ti=cl

https://facebook.com/events/s/extinction-rebellion-love-song/2466271430312860/?ti=as

The BP one is not an XR event but there will definitely be people from XR local groups there.

I'll be there for both but, by God, that sing along sounds grim.
https://lovesongsfortheplanet.com/lyrics-for-songs/
We know we didn’t treat you
As a global ecosystem
We know we didn’t listen
To your warnings…just dismissed ‘em
No one deserves that, let aloneElvis.

that's "die-in" levels of yikes.

I've heard some awful protest songs in the last year or so. At one (non xr but linked to it) planning event it was announced there'd be an impromptu sing along, "here's the words join in everyone" kind of thing as a guitarist appeared. It was all very awkward so I walked away. Others complained about this to the organiser afterwards too which was reassuring.

Haha, could be a new tactic, "we'll do whatever you want, just stop singing ffs"

Not about XR but seemed the best place to put this:
https://thebreakthrough.org/journal/no-12-winter-2020/avocado-politics

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-17/extinction-rebellion-targets-commodity-traders-in-geneva?srnd=green&sref=5F8Ao01j

On my home tonight I passed by the grass that XR had dug up in Cambridge which they deposited at the nearest Barclays

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Wtf?

Because nothing says “we care about the environment” more than... er... ripping up a lawn. Genius.

https://apple.news/AxuCkjw3DPS68nJEjzrEQiA

Meh. Trinity is rich as FUCK. What they invest in is actually not completely irrelevant. And it's just a lawn.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-cambridgeshire-51534446

Makes a bit more sense in context, but hardly counts as NVDA surely?

A well manicured lawn isn't a haven of biodiversity, so perhaps better to chuck a load of (locally sourced) wildflower meadow seeds in now this is done.

It started with Lawns...

Yeah the lawn isn’t such a large issue - it’s not exactly a massive diverse ecosystem. I’m sure I’ll walk passed it tonight and Trinity will have gotten the 30 person strong groundskeeping team to restore it back. Trinity has faced a lot of pressure over the last few years for some of its dodgy investments - maybe this will finally kick them to start thinking about them properly. It would also seem like a fairly well targeted institution because it comprises of about ~1000 students and ~200 fellows who’ll hopefully be able to apply to pressure to the college bursar/investment team.

“Trinity College must cut ties with fossil fuel companies and stop
trying to hawk off nature for profit,” Extinction Rebellion Cambridge
said on its Facebook page. “Oh, and it should take the opportunity to
replace the lawn with flowers. Spring is just around the corner after
all.”

If you really want to improve the biodiversity of a lawn this would be the perfect first step.

Next step - those houses with front gardens paved/concreted over.

An excellent video of the art in XR
https://youtu.be/mg5kzZMGg6Q

So everything is on track now it seems. Not much need for discussion.

Anyone else think this makes him look and sound like an adolescent prat?

https://twitter.com/RogerHallamCS21/status/1242582182411018242

Andrew Neil getting annoyed by ER
https://twitter.com/afneil/status/1242765426007949312

Although comments suggesting fake

This is a more measured take: https://twitter.com/berglund_oscar/status/1242958329045045248?s=21