On Wednesday I intend to be arrested at #ExtinctionRebellion. These are my reasons:
1. History shows that when people are prepared to jeopardise their own liberty, other people realise that they mean what they say, and take their campaigns more seriously.
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1. History shows that when people are prepared to jeopardise their own liberty, other people realise that they mean what they say, and take their campaigns more seriously.
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2. I have urged other people to join @ExtinctionR, and many of them have been arrested. It would be wrong to encourage other people to do something I am not prepared to do.
3. As a white, middle class man with an established career, I am less vulnerable than the great majority of other people. I feel I have a moral duty to use this privilege for the sake of those without such liberty and without my voice.
4. I have had a good and fulfilling life. I must do everything in my power to ensure that other people have the same opportunity, including the people of other nations, children and the unborn. #ClimateBreakdown will deny this chance to many millions.
5. After very nearly being killed several times while working as an investigative journalist in West Papua, Brazil and East Africa, sometimes on almost suicidal missions, almost the only thing that still holds fear for me is our inaction in the face of environmental crisis.
6. When you have come within a hair's breadth of being killed by military police in north-eastern Brazil, being picked up for obstructing a road in central London is of no consequence at all.
This is my duty, and I intend to fulfil it.
This is my duty, and I intend to fulfil it.
