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climate organising & activism with @FoEScot & elsewhere✨ edinburgh, she/her 🏳️‍🌈
May 10, 2019 11 tweets 3 min read
This article argues XR should get the right wing to care about climate change by appealing to their values. In my opinion @ExtinctionR already does this too much & it’s dangerous (thread) @ScotlandXr theguardian.com/commentisfree/… This very quickly falls into enforcing harmful narratives, such as using anti-immigration arguments to talk about how bad mass displacement will be for the UK when people try to come here. Or framing climate change as an economic opportunity for business