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The first section, Learning from Past Struggles offers:
*A brief history of climate movements, with particular focus on XR and Ende Gelände
* Examination of moral vs strategic pacifism
* Reassessment of the role of violence in historical struggles the success of which is often attributed to nonviolence (abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, apartheid, the civil rights movement)
— Nov 14, 2021 07:20PM
*A brief history of climate movements, with particular focus on XR and Ende Gelände
* Examination of moral vs strategic pacifism
* Reassessment of the role of violence in historical struggles the success of which is often attributed to nonviolence (abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, apartheid, the civil rights movement)
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Ch2, Breaking the Spell:
* It is possible for non-state actors to cause significant disruption to fossil fuel and CO2 generating infra (and that this is already happening, just not for the purpose of furthering environmental causes)
*The difference between violence against individuals vs against property
*The ethics and tactics of targeting private consumption
*Positive vs negative radical flank
— Nov 16, 2021 10:57AM
* It is possible for non-state actors to cause significant disruption to fossil fuel and CO2 generating infra (and that this is already happening, just not for the purpose of furthering environmental causes)
*The difference between violence against individuals vs against property
*The ethics and tactics of targeting private consumption
*Positive vs negative radical flank
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"There are 56 countries in the world with annual per capita emissions lower than the emissions from one individual flying once between London and New York"
— Nov 16, 2021 09:10AM
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Nov 14, 2021 07:24PM
And also poses a question: if one accepts that the climate crisis is an imminent danger to billions of people and untold other living creatures on earth; that the timeline for action is glancingly short; that action heretofore has produced woefully inadequate results; why *hasn't* violent action been a part of the movement?
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Malm's answer, at least in part, is that the climate movement has misread history.
