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On Extinction Rebellion and People who It is the power that tops any powerful communal support for the
government, any army, any global
first time.
possess wealth
All this is why almost every town
corporation. It is the power of
in the country has seen an XR group
nature - of the Earth itself.
leaving our grandchildren and power seldom that the Earth is on its way to spring up in the last few months,
Everyone is beginning to see
including Aberystwyth. Bus-loads
want to face up to
terminating the status quo; and
of protestors from this area went to
with a viable earth to inhabit the fact that it is as the evidence mounts, the less occupy Oxford Circus on April 15th,
blind amongst the powerful begin
and some did not return for 10 days.
transitory; but we
The commitment is total. And it is
to realise that change must happen.
The protestors have the power of
growing.
The government and the media
By Carol Nixon are discovering facts on their side. have started to take notice, but
And this XR movement is
that they can be
the authorities are still saying
deliberately structured in such a
made to. way as to demonstrate the best that ‘decarbonisation by 2025 is
of human interaction. The way in impossible.’ Nothing is impossible
which every so-called ‘arrestable’ if you want it badly enough. We
is backed up by cooks, helpers, want our grandchildren to have a
Carol Nixon shares her welfare workers and legal observers viable Earth to live in badly enough.
thoughts on the recent climate has brought many to tears who have Do you?
emergency protests, which experienced this atmosphere of
have taken place up and
down the country

y now, few readers under an avalanche of fake science and the Western world have favoured the
can be unaware of the trivia. Still the current POTUS states rich over the poor since history began,
Extinction Rebellion unequivocally that climate change is a whether at the level of individuals or
demonstrations and ‘hoax.’ of countries: POWER = WEALTH =
blockades which Have we ever seen such a flagrant POWER. People who possess wealth
took place in London example of Goebbels’ ‘Big Lie’ in modern and power seldom want to face up to
before Easter. My times? Shout loud enough and often the fact that it is transitory; but we are
Bcertainty of this is enough and you will convince, if not all, discovering that they can be made to.
a measure of how they have succeeded at least enough. Protest on its own could not overcome
in their primary goal - to raise climate It is therefore with a feeling almost of such immense levels of power bias in
change to the top of the agenda, and get exultation that people who have watched society, because as soon as a ‘normal’
people thinking and talking about the this sorry spectacle with anguish revolution succeeds, the new leaders
topic. throughout their adult lives, witness the are corrupted and sucked into the same
For 40 years climate scientists, growth of a mass movement which will nexus of wealth and power; we need only
and those who believed them, have put up with this deceit and hypocrisy no remember George Orwell’s Animal Farm
clamoured to be heard. Their warnings longer. as a poignant reminder of this.
have been downplayed, minimised, The use of the word ‘rebellion’ is But this time there is a greater power
refuted, scorned, and ultimately buried significant. The power structures of which in the end will force change.

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