Corinne Morel Darleux, elected from the French Gauche Parti, would also be worth the Euskaldunes: “We should look more often at what is happening elsewhere. While we were demonstrating under the motto We are still on time, in England, blockades were being organized screaming We have no more time. Interesting comparisons could be made here with the blockade of the German coal mine, organised at the summit of the oil producers in Pau or with the non-violent struggle that Alternatiba is advocating in France. At the moment, however, little has been said in France about this movement that has been created in England in order to internationalize.”

The XR firm has been extended for the first time to the actions of many conflicts in Britain: Disappearance X (extinction), rebellion R. A hourglass that is easily drawn by playing with X and that suggests that the reaction time is exhausted to avoid catastrophe.

On the website of the movement, one of the creators, Gallina Bradbrooke, presents the latest scientific evidence of climate warming and explains how the years of the ice poles are happening, the loss of albedo, the risk of resumption of fascism and the mechanisms used by the oligarchy to move away from the rest of the mundane that will hit us. That is why, he says, it is urgent to change course, it is possible technically and economically, politicians do nothing and, therefore, we have to articulate a new relationship of forces and take things into our hands.

But XR talks about a political relationship of forces, regardless of the climate sentiment campaigns, as Greta Thunberg says: “We cannot save the Earth by playing with its rules, we have to change the rules. There is currently no policy needed to prevent the destruction of the climate. We have to change the system, because we are in crisis. And we have to start right away. As if war were coming to us.”

On 31 October, a sitting was held in front of the British Parliament to call for an uprising against the London Government (Declaration of Rebellion), which was arrested. Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old Swedish girl on a school strike, spoke at the event because her government does nothing about the climate problem. “The data on what happens doesn’t seem to matter today, politicians don’t listen to scientists. If that is the case, why do I have to learn? If adult people don’t care about our future, then I care too.”

During the event, the Police arrested 15 Protestants for impeding the movement of their vehicles. Over the next two weeks, 60 more were arrested for participating in acts of disobedience organized by XR: street breaks, painted on the walls of the Ministry of the Environment and other official offices, chained in the entrance to Downing Street where the Prime Minister resides...

On 17 November, thousands of people participated in the Rebellion Day, an anti-terrorist day in the region. The five major bridges in London were blocked for several hours, resulting in a major traffic collision. The Guardian said the following day that it was “one of the greatest acts of peaceful civil disobedience in the UK in recent decades.” Days later, several streets in London were blocked by crosses and other cities like Oxford or Cambridge hosted similar protests.
Extinction Rebellion makes three requirements. One, that governments tell the public the truth of the ecological crisis. Two, organize a global mobilization, in II. As in the World War, to reduce net carbon emissions to 0 by 2025, by making binding policy decisions and reducing current consumption levels. Three, organize the Citizens' Assemblies that oversee the changes.

To achieve these, XR is responsible for mobilizing 3.5% of the population through instruments of peaceful struggle and operating in a decentralized manner. How? Voskoboynik, by Daniel Macmill, explained in Red Pepper that “XR wants to achieve a tremendous escalation of the movement, linking mass mobilization, civil disobedience and arrests. As the philosopher Rupert Read, who participates in XR, says, ‘our long-term goal is to create a situation in which the government cannot ignore the growing crowd that wants to prevent the destruction of the climate’. (...) The basis of this theory lies in the role of ‘mass arrests’ in historical movements and the one that political scientist Erica Chenoweth calls ‘Law of 3.5%’: that throughout history movements have needed an active and continuous participation of that percentage of the population to bring down dictatorships.”

Despite the exact percentages, Corinne Morel believes that the XR brings a new message to heal the fatigue suffered by leftist and ecologist militants in the search for the masses: "There's no need to bring millions of people together. Instead of the culture of petitions, demonstrations and other priorities, XR wants to use actions not necessarily massive but ‘disruptive’, i.e., exciting and subversive, without harmful violence. For them, the beginning of a hunger strike or their willingness to go to jail demonstrates how serious an issue is and that they risk themselves provokes respect, awakening people. In short, the idea is that “the more serious the issue is, the less it takes for many entrepreneurs”.

Apparently, XR has already advanced that there are already 500 people ready to go to jail in this strategy to fight dispersion. Are we not exaggerating the idea of sacrificing, of an excessively revolutionary romanticism, or even of what only privileged people can do? Mothers without partners, refugees, the most precarious among workers... will not be able to enter these cases. “That’s exactly why,” Morel says: people who have this possibility have to be on the front line. But don't think it's easy for them. That is why it is preparing, both in physical meetings, web debates, videos on Youtube...”.

The climatologist Kate Marvel, who joined Extinction Rebellion, said: “I’m often asked to give reasons for hope. People want to hear that in the end everything is going to be fine. But I can't say that. The opposite of hope is not despair, it's grief. We need courage, not hope. It’s courage to decide to do it right, not to be sure that everything is going to end well.” Maybe that's why XR has put among his slogans: “Hope dies, action begins“. Kill hope, take action.