AT EXTINCTION REBELLION, IT'S TURTLE ISLAND ALL THE WAY DOWN

MEDIUM 10 January 2019

Extinction Rebellion isn’t about the Climate

Stuart Basden
I’ve been with Extinction Rebellion (XR) from the start... I’m a RisingUp Holding Group member, and a member of the XR Guardianship Team... And I’m here to say that XR isn’t about the climate...

To focus on the climate’s breakdown (the symptom) without focusing attention on these toxic delusions (the causes) is... a racist and sexist form of denialism, that takes away from the necessary focus of the need for all of us to de-colonise our selves...

The insanity* of the mind of the coloniser continues today. It continues in the extraction of fossil fuels, minerals and water from the earth. It continues in deforestation and industrial agriculture. It continues in a callous culture of consumption, which intensifies each Christmas...

* I use the term ‘insanity’ carefully, with the intention of highlighting the need for healing. Indigenous First Nation people helpfully taught me to see the mindset of the coloniser as a sickness. In no way do I intend to marginalise or discredit the experience of people who have been labelled ‘insane’ by a normative system, nor who identify as being ‘insane'...  including the pathologically wasteful cultures of Europe and Turtle Island (aka North America)