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The mainstream movement’s willingness to compromise and make deals with politicians and industry while abandoning escalatory eco-defenders has done nothing to decelerate the warming of the planet. In fact, if I may repurpose Malm’s words, it has achieved little if anything and has had no lasting gains to show for it.

I asked one Indigenous frontliner why they continue to fight pipelines even when we lose more often than we win. They answered my question with a question. “What does losing mean?” they asked. “Is it failing to stop the pipeline? Or is it failing to fight back with everything we’ve got? If the consequences of losing are unacceptable, then fighting is your only option. I’m here because my ancestors fought back. Did they win? If they’d won, then the US wouldn’t be here. But if they hadn’t fought back then, I wouldn’t be here and neither would my children. As Indigenous people, we have that same responsibility to the land. We are the land. There is no option of not fighting back.” You will find no fatalism here.

There is real work to do—dishes, chopping wood, hauling water, physically stopping a pipeline from being built—and this means that the abstractions that bog down mass movement participation (ideological pacifism, climate fatalism) are less likely to gain a foothold. If the climate movement is looking for direction, as Malm claims, it would do well to pay attention to the tactics and strategies of those who defend the land and water far away from major centers of commerce and policy, often with only a handful of people and by whatever means necessary. In comparison to mass movement maundering, the ethical and strategic clarity on the frontlines is bracingly refreshing.

Was stopping the pipeline more important than their own freedom?

Once an investor has constructed a coal-fired power plant or a pipeline or any other such unit, he will not want to dismantle it.

Two-thirds of capital placed in projects for generating energy in the year 2018 went to oil, gas, and coal — that is, to additional facilities for extracting and combusting such fuels, on top of all that already spanned the globe — as against less than one-third of capital going to wind and sun.

The bar for joining a disruption of business as usual is lowered by certificates of peacefulness. Our being beaten up on the railway tracks in Groningen earned us the sympathy of the Dutch press; no one could smear us as terrorists or the like. Had some of us in Gothenburg started hacking on the fences or used slingshots against the trucks, the scene would have descended into chaos. We would have been kettled and herded off to jail; I could not have brought my two kids to the site and played with them for hours.

the date eventually announced as 2038. That’s another two decades of churning out coal.

all her merchandise made with 100% organic cotton, locally, and sustainably made

recommend further studies considering, for example, the consumption of locally grown and seasonal products aswell

Almost a third of the world's grain and 75%of soy production is used for intensive livestock production, instead of feeding humans directly. A recent meta-analysisfound that meat, aquaculture, eggs, and dairy use about 83% of the world's farmland yet provide only 37% of our proteinand 18% of our calories (Poore & Nemecek, 2018

responsibilities of individuals for the moral consideration of animals andclimate justice—in consumer interactions, but also in their political roles as citizens.

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pass federal bills that would repair coal mines, support disability for those with black lung disease, and ensure that miners have pensions

it was easier to imagine McConnell ignoring us than listening to us.

“You lie for money,” another posted on Facebook, “and change the data.”

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