Extinction Rebellion Protests Have Disrupted The UK. Is This The Way To Get Action On Climate Change?

The disconcerting thing about such radicalism, at this moment, is that itis the activists—rather than the state or law enforcement—who have thefacts on their side. One of Extinction Rebellion’s favored tactics is toquote the first line of the executive summary of the 2018 report of theU.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: “Limiting globalwarming to 1.5°C would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedentedchanges in all aspects of society.”&nda