The environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion acknowledges that the UK will not reach its net zero carbon emission goal by 2025, urging a shift towards practical adaptation strategies for a changing climate.
With the climate crisis hitting Britain, we must build resilience at a local level by rewilding, saving water and fighting floods. Imagine, for a moment, if 2025 was the year that the UK achieved its legally binding targets of reducing dangerous carbon emissions to zero. Imagine if the Extinction Rebellion s of 2019 had achieved their goal, and the government had bowed to the pressure of climate activism to meet this target.
In this counterfactual reality, the world would be much saner than our own. But as the new year arrives, we’re forced to confront a stark reality. Britain is nowhere near achieving zero carbon in the next 12 months. When Extinction Rebellion (XR) was founded in 2018, the 2025 target was conceived as a clarion call to action. It was based on the need to decarbonise quickly, to mitigate the worst impacts of climate decline, and to fulfil as one of the world’s largest polluters. With the new year upon us, it’s clear that decarbonisation at the scale and speed we imagined isn’t a feasible goal within our existing political and economic frameworks. And this failure brings with it some uncomfortable truths that everyone concerned about the climate crisis must face head-on. And that means, in effect, beyond activism and enters everyday life, engaging everyone from businesses and professionals to ordinary citizens. If we are to have a hope of flourishing, we need a movement that invites people to share in its determination to act. One of the best ways of achieving this is by channelling our energy into practical solutions for adapting to the climate crisis that’s already here. At the same time, climate activists and thought leaders need to stop clinging to the fantasy of decarbonisation as the sole answer to our predicament. As well as thinking about preventing and decarbonising, we need to start thinking about coping, adapting and preparin
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