Roger Hallam at Solvay library Brussels

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Roger Hallam talks about the crisis we are facing, how to mobilize people and how to build a movement. Read on to find shortcuts to essential quotes in this hour long talk.
00:02:30 foundation of Extinction Rebellion
00:07:04 history has ended
00:08:12 people want to know what's going on – we have been lied to – politicians are taking us to our death
00:09:21 why people don’t talk about climate science

00:10:26 killer facts
00:10:37 1) Arctic ice melting
00:11:45 chaotic weather systems impeding food production causing famine and death
00:12:32 2) The Paris agreement the biggest act in mass delusion in history: we are heading to far worse climate heating than 1,5° C.

00:15:57 predicted climate warming of 5° C - 1 billion people left on the planet, huddled around the poles, after mass slaughter and starvation.
00:16:52 It is worse than that: social collapse
if you want to mobilize people talk about their pensions, about house prices
00:17:39 their kids send off by fascists to protect us from migrants in Southern Europe. That is when you know that the climate crisis has happened, that's the universal message.
00:17:59 and then we're going to run out of food
00:19:11 how to be effective in mobilizing people: you have to tell them the truth. Some people may get confused by this. Some people will despair and get depressed. Some people will decide to act, that it's so bad that they can't live with themselves any longer. And they need to act. The severity of the truth mobilizes them to act in an effective way.

Examples of civil disobedience that changed history:
00:20:17 Martin Luther King
00:27:20 Ghandi‘s salt march
00:29:18 Freedom riders
00:31:11 sacrifice and disruption
00:32:02 the children's March 1963
00:34:14 learn from history and how people brought about change

00:35:54 building a movement
00:37:45 paradox of political identity
00:40:38 talking to people
00:43:07 growing local groups
00:44:02 social media vs social contact; civil disobedience interacts with the talks
00:45:29 uniting people we don’t like
00:47:48 arrest and going to prison

00:53:12 you become happier when you step up to do what’s right

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