In a way, it has an extinction rebellion. Seems to start to be acknowledging that when they at least extinction rebellion. Came out, I don't remember exactly when, but maybe nine months ago or something and said that kind of had a funny way. They said, we quit. And then they said, well, okay, we didn't entirely quit. But yeah, but we've quit disrupting normal people's lives. We feel like we made the point. We now are going to try to build broad coalitions of people to influence policymakers.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Trevor Neilson, founder of startup Wastefuel and the Climate Emergency Fund, to talk about how he helped launch and finance Extinction Rebellion (XR) (4:50), how the Malibu wildfires inspired him to act (8:20), meeting Roger Hallam, founder of XR and Just Stop Oil (16:00), bankrolling protestors (18:00), why he thinks the movement has gone off the rails (22:50), whether he is worried about what his former colleagues will think (32:00), how XR has experimented with changing tactics (40:30), where and how he grew up (43:30), getting a job at the White House (46:30), working with Bono on AIDS (50:00), starting his own company (55:00), why he does not think we will meet the 1.5 degree goal (58:10), telling the truth (1:09:00), and the children suing Montana (1:11:50)
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