There’s a cartoon that says it best: you’ll likely know it - it’s a climate summit, the speaker has a presentation listing items like clean water, liveable cities, saving the rainforests. The speech bubble above the head of a guy in the audience says: “but what if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing”. It hurts because it’s true.
But it seems lately that it isn’t the message but the messenger that is in line for a very specific kind of attack, just for wanting to talk about climate breakdown. Particularly when it’s a certain type of messenger. Where does this anger and vitriol come from?
We aren’t psychoanalysts in Extinction Rebellion, though we no doubt have some among our number.
