If you are going to get a critical mass, you need to get it globally. XR couldn't even get a critical mass in Britain (Didn't Hallam estimate a CM at about 3% of population?)
It's right to link action on climate change to action on inequality and poverty. That would get more purchase in the poorer countries.
The elites are willing to play lip service to the 'green agenda'.
What they are not going to do is countenance any systemic change that involves a massive redistribution of resources.
Capitalism and its growth agenda and western consumerist lifestyles (especially of the top percentiles) are not to be challenged.
'No to fossil fuels' and 'Just stop oil'. And then what?
It's all very well going for green energy - which is not as clean as it's made out to be - but renewables can't replace fossil fuels and maintain present lifestyles. They can only ever be an add on.
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