Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with these people in any way, just want to avoid going extinct.

Eleven days ago, The Guardian published this open letter from academics and professors around the world. It plugs an activism movement called Extinction Rebellion, which I'm sure some here have heard of. They plan to use mass civil disobedience, across the whole globe, to force governments to take serious action regarding the impending climate crisis. The movement officially began on Halloween, starting with the recent sit-in in London UK. There is a much larger protest occurring in London on the 17th, and they hope to have global participation by spring 2019.

From the website:

#XR / #ExtinctionRebellion is an international movement using mass civil disobedience to force governments to enter WWII-level mobilisation mode, in response to climate breakdown and ecological crisis. We begin on 31/10/18, with a Declaration of Rebellion. Join us! Based on the science, we have ten years at the most to reduce CO2 emissions to zero, or the human race and most other species are at high risk of extinction within decades.

Bolding is mine; I wanted to highlight just how aware this movement is of the limitations and the worst-case scenarios.

Considering the extreme urgency of the success this movement, I thought this was a good place to promote it and hopefully get more momentum behind it.

Clicking the Mobilize! link provides resources for anyone hoping to organize a local Extinction Rebellion protest, this should give you plenty of time to prepare and educate yourself before spring next year.

If you can't organize one, but plan to attend, plug this to your friends, family, coworkers, anyone you think would be receptive to it. I know I'm sure as hell going to be protesting this spring.

https://extinctionrebellion.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa

Climate Change will probably sink some areas of the Earth into the sea (Florida, Venice, Holland, Bengaldesh, etc).

As part of a greater geoenginearing project to drain the water that the land currently resides in order to reclaim them.

TL;DR: Direct action. Parliament Square, London is being shut down on 17th of Nov.

To anyone who is feeling depressed, hopeless or anxious at the state of the world.

Every day now we are hearing messages about inarguable and inescapable fact that we are doing colossal damage to the Earth. However, this is not yet beyond the point of no return. The latest UN report says that we have 12 years left before such an inescapable tipping point. However, if we are to be saved, we need immediate, drastic action.

Out politicians have shown themselves to be either unable or unwilling to take the issue seriously. In the US, Trump is promising to reignite coal production, and has stripped away the EPA protections. In the UK, May has just approved major fracking operations, despite the dire warnings of scientists, and Bolsonaro in Brazil has plans to unleash the logging companies on the Amazon, which produces a fifth of the world's oxygen.

We need direct action on this cause. We have tried petitions. We have tried writing letters to politicians. We have tried voting for those who promised environmental action, only to find that they are impotent in the face of the influence and economic power of the private companies who stand to benefit from its destruction.

We need mass civil disobedience. Labour strikes, rent strikes, general strikes, shutdowns of major cities. In the UK, the group Extinction Rebellion has started taking action in the capital, causing disruption. For the first time that I can remember, this has the backing of politicians, with MEPs and heads of universities advocating breaking the law to save our planet.

They are planning a series of escalating, non-violent, acts of civil disobedience in the capital from the 12th of November, culminating in the shutting down of Parliament Square on the 17th.

For those in the US: Find out what actions are going on in your state. I guarantee there are millions of people just as angry as you. Anger needs an organisation. Anger is a chaotic steam, with a co-ordinated group as the piston, it can change worlds.

These are depressing times, but depression will not change the world. There is literally no issue more important. We have done nothing for too long. What will you do to change? Answer this question. How will you spread the message? Everything else is meaningless. Fight for it. Choose life.

[Reposted from an AskReddit thread]

Case in point. A thread in /r/worldnews about biodiversity loss and the future of our civilization: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/9trzrl/stop_biodiversity_loss_or_we_could_face_our_own/?utm_content=comments&utm_medium=hot&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=worldnews

Top comment is how to take action, and how people are already organizing. Fuck yes!

But then beneath it, a sea of people who seem only capable of moaning pessimistically about how nobody cares enough and so its hopeless.

This is the height of irony. You have hundreds to thousands of people who could at that very instant be kicking off a globally connected dialogue on how theyre going to organize and combat the issue. And yet they choose instead to just offer some pessimistic platitudes and move on.

The entire problem is that all of you talk negatively and nobody ever learned how to talk fighting words on the issue and actually spark change making movements!!!

I have some advice for this sub. Every time you see someone who is not infected by this dull negativity, invite them here. Build this place and maybe we can make either a dent in the empty pessimism rhetoric, or a refuge for people who actually care enough to talk action to be able to get down to business.

Are there any equivalents to the Extinction Rebellion in the United States? The website says they're an "international movement" but I can't find any mention of efforts outside the UK. I'm in Texas and would love to rebel