If XR people start doing the things on that action list, they'll be declared terrrrrsts, and then Archived Message Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym on May 4, 2020, 7:28 pm, in reply to "XR asking for pledges..." get the destroy-Occupy treatment in a second. The nearest-to-practical course is to pray for socio-economic disruptions like the current curfew to keep happening, to force us to cut back repeatedly. Fortunately - if that's the right word - such black swans are now hoving up on the horizon in numbers. I don't believe there will be any complete going back to the status quo ante. Too much damage already done which - in practice - will never get fully repaired. This is one of those periodic sudden lurch-downs in the stepwise Long Descent, destined to be permanent, that JMGreer has been describing for some years. Message Thread: Carbon Brief: Coronavirus set to cause largest ever annual fall in CO2 emissions - Ian M May 4, 2020, 6:05 pm XR asking for pledges... - Ian M May 4, 2020, 6:22 pm If XR people start doing the things on that action list, they'll be declared terrrrrsts, and then - Rhisiart Gwilym May 4, 2020, 7:28 pm Re: If XR people start doing the things on that action list, they'll be declared terrrrrsts, and then - Ian M May 5, 2020, 8:30 pm Some of those "ideas" are downright immature. And highly self-sabotaging for any movement. - Der May 6, 2020, 8:43 am Viet Cong, WW2 partisans, Che Guevara, Nelson Mandela (pre-ANC), MEND in Nigeria, the IRA... - Ian M May 6, 2020, 8:34 pm   Searching