In the years after the financial crisis, climate change initiatives appear to have lost priority on the pollical agenda. In response to the widespread indifference, the Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement founded in 2018 began to employ crowd civil disobedience tactics to put climate change back on the agenda. Here we follow XR cofounders and Farhana Yamin, international environmental lawyer, who played a key role in negotiating the Paris Climate Agreement. After decades of negotiation by the United Nations on climate issues, Farhana is determined to sound the alarm and urge governments to act, while they enact legislation to limit the power of peaceful protest and threaten 10-year prison sentences against anyone “causing serious disturbance or disruption”.
