The Extinction Rebellion (XR) climate campaign has said it will temporarily stop using public disruption tactics because “very little has changed.”
In the last 12 months protesters from XR, Insulate Britain, and, most recently, Just Stop Oil, have caused chaos for motorists and others going about their daily commute.
Climate activists have been arrested after blockading traffic, locking and gluing themselves together, and spray painting buildings. But despite this, XR said “very little has changed—emissions continue to rise and our planet is dying at an accelerated rate.”
“As we ring in the new year, we make a controversial resolution to temporarily shift away from public disruption as a primary tactic,” it said in a statement on Dec. 31. …