This page was created for the participants in one of our Climate Conversations. Responses are edited for clarity and anonymity. They represent the personal feelings and opinion of participants around that topic. They are not intended to be used as a source of factual information. They are not fact-checked and there may be errors and inaccuracies.
Social movements and climate change
- Like a Venn diagram
- Intersectionality
- Anti-imperialism and climate
- Greens
- School strike
- Greta
- Intersectionality
- Definition?
- A social movement can look like it comes from nowhere
- It’s social
- They have a wide base
- They aren’t top-down
- Organisations and activists
- It’s difficult to get into this topic
- It’s difficult to quantify their effects
- They get people asking themselves difficult questions
- XR and Greta were very successful until Covid, then they disappeared
- They didn’t disappear
- Is it lost or not?
- They didn’t disappear
- You only see the effects in hindsight
- You want it to be the thing that blows up, e,g, on Twitter
- It feels like the antithesis of Twitter
- It’s about movement
- It comes in waves
- The momentum feels powerful
- There are loads of social movements
- Examples:
- Feminism
- Civil rights
- Serbian student protests
- Examples:
- People come together, then it fractures
- To it have to split into sections?
- I think there’s no choice
- People on the left want to talk
- Do we just do that in this group?
- Do we genuinely want to learn or just say our piece?
- Do we just do that in this group?
- Why are we talking about this topic? What’s the relevance?
- Social tipping points
- Does anyone think we can see a social movement now?
- Yes
- European youth movements
- Far Right
- Who’s setting the agenda?
- Yes
- People are pissed off
- The pissed-off-ness is manifesting in different ways
