The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported in October last year
that at the time, humans had 12 years to curb global greenhouse gas
emissions to prevent the climate and ecological catastrophe the
Earth is currently plummeting towards.
This grave scientific forecast has sparked climate activists
into action the world over. Locally, members of the climate
movement Extinction Rebellion (XR) descended upon the Sydney
offices of multinational GHD
on Tuesday to protest its involvement with the Adani Carmichael
coal mine.
XR declared open
rebellion in London on 31 October last year. And the movement
has been very clear that the way it plans to bring about its aim of
halting the climate emergency is via acts of nonviolent civil
disobedience.
