Extinction Rebellion: crossing the line?

Michael Abberton
4 min readJun 4, 2021

Vote as we say or else… XR moves from political persuasion & protest to punish those who don’t do as they’re told

The aftermath of the Cambridge XR attack on Alex Wood Hall

Extinction Rebellion (XR) claims to be a pressure group prepared to take violent direct action in order to emphasise the critical danger of climate change, and protest political and societal inaction or even complacency towards what could literally be the end of the world as we…

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Michael Abberton

Tomahawk thrower, writer, trade unionist, Japanese speaker and all around good guy.