Doing Damage in the Name of Climate Action
<p>Their street blockades in which they glued themselves to the autobahn, were radical and disruptive. This approach won them the nickname of “Klima-Kleber” (climate gluers), and a lot of public backlash from drivers. The group pushed further than protesters like Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion, who relied on traditional “mass mobilisation” movements, approaches which seemed increasingly ineffective in the face of increasing climate disasters around the world. I admired the Last Generation’s courage to take radical action, and their initial autobahn-blocking demonstrations made sense to me as a way to get people to reconsider their mobility choices.</p>
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