Extinction Rebellion

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Extinction Rebellion's website, at the time of the group's inception in the UK, stated the following aims:{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48607989|title=Who are Extinction Rebellion and what do they want? |work=www.bbc.com |date=16 July 2019|access-date=9 August 2019|language=en-GB|archive-date=19 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219215915/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48607989|url-status=live}}{{cite web|access-date=18 November 2018|title=Extinction Rebellion |url=https://rebellion.earth/|website=Rebellion.earth|archive-date=28 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200328035201/https://rebellion.earth/|url-status=live}}

• Government must tell the truth by declaring a climate and ecological emergency, working with other institutions to communicate the urgency for change.
• Government must act now to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2025.{{Cite web|url=http://theconversation.com/2050-is-too-late-we-must-drastically-cut-emissions-much-sooner-121512|title=2050 is too late – we must drastically cut emissions much sooner|last=Jackson|first=Tim|website=The Conversation|date=15 September 2019 |language=en|access-date=23 September 2019|archive-date=23 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923194027/https://theconversation.com/2050-is-too-late-we-must-drastically-cut-emissions-much-sooner-121512|url-status=live}}
• Government must create, and be led by the decisions of, a citizens' assembly on climate and ecological justice.

When the movement expanded to the United States, a further demand was added to that group's list: "We demand a just transition that prioritizes the most vulnerable people and indigenous sovereignty; establishes reparations and remediation led by and for Black people, Indigenous people, people of colour and poor communities for years of environmental injustice, establishes legal rights for ecosystems to thrive and regenerate in perpetuity, and repairs the effects of ongoing ecocide to prevent extinction of human and all species, in order to maintain a livable, just planet for all."{{cite news|first1=Damien|last1=Gayle|access-date=5 October 2019|title=Does Extinction Rebellion have a race problem?|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/04/extinction-rebellion-race-climate-crisis-inequality|newspaper=The Guardian|date=4 October 2019|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com|archive-date=19 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200119054004/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/04/extinction-rebellion-race-climate-crisis-inequality|url-status=live}}{{cite web|access-date=5 October 2019|title=Demands|url=https://extinctionrebellion.us/demands|website=Extinction Rebellion US|archive-date=2 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202052331/https://extinctionrebellion.us/demands|url-status=live}}

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Extinction Rebellion is a loosely networked, decentralised, grassroots movement, with largely autonomous local groups – which often collaborate on actions – forming the bulk of the movement's organisational capacity. A local group is generally based around a specific geographical locality such as a suburb, city or in some cases a larger region. The movement also organises around affinity groups.{{cite news|first1=Gaby|last1=Hinsliff|title=Extinction Rebellion has built up so much goodwill. It mustn't throw that away|author-link=Gaby Hinsliff|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/17/extinction-rebellion-canning-town-well-off-people|newspaper=The Guardian|date=17 October 2019|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com|access-date=18 October 2019 |archive-date=25 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325152924/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/17/extinction-rebellion-canning-town-well-off-people|url-status=live}}{{cite news|first1=Nosheen|last1=Iqbal|access-date=19 October 2019|title=How Extinction Rebellion put the world on red alert|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/06/how-extinction-rebellion-put-world-on-red-alert-year-since-it-was-founded|newspaper=The Observer|date=6 October 2019|issn=0029-7712|via=www.theguardian.com|archive-date=4 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200104025848/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/06/how-extinction-rebellion-put-world-on-red-alert-year-since-it-was-founded|url-status=live}}{{cite news|first1=Nicole|last1=Kobie|access-date=19 October 2019|title=How Extinction Rebellion evolved its tactics for its London protests|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/extinction-rebellion-london-protest|newspaper=Wired UK|date=7 October 2019|issn=1357-0978|via=www.wired.co.uk|archive-date=18 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218173303/https://www.wired.co.uk/article/extinction-rebellion-london-protest|url-status=live}}{{cite news|first1=Sanjana|last1=Varghese|access-date=19 October 2019|title=Here's the secret to Extinction Rebellion's explosive growth|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/extinction-rebellion-news-growth|newspaper=Wired UK|date=12 October 2019|issn=1357-0978|via=www.wired.co.uk|archive-date=18 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218175424/https://www.wired.co.uk/article/extinction-rebellion-news-growth|url-status=live}}

Anyone who takes action in pursuit of "XR's three goals and adheres to its ten principles, which includes non-violence, can claim to do it in the name of XR."

The Economist identified the group as using the tenets of holacracy to operate more effectively given strong state opposition.

Extinction Rebellion has a decentralised structure.{{Cite news |last=Taylor |first=Matthew |date=2020-08-04 |title=The evolution of Extinction Rebellion |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/04/evolution-of-extinction-rebellion-climate-emergency-protest-coronavirus-pandemic |access-date=2023-12-07 |issn=0261-3077}} Providing that they respect the 'principles and values', every local group can organise events and actions independently. To organise the movement, local groups are structured with various 'working groups' taking care of strategy, outreach, well-being, etc.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}}

A group of health professionals named 'Doctors for Extinction Rebellion' supports XR actions and organises demonstrations on their own, warning about the effects of climate change on human health. They are notably present in the United Kingdom{{Cite news |author=Rebecca Speare-Cole |title=Extiction Rebellion: Doctors glue themselves to government building to protest threat of climate change on global health |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/extiction-rebellion-doctors-glue-themselves-to-government-building-to-protest-threat-of-climate-change-on-global-health-a4246116.html |work=Evening Standard |date=25 September 2019 |access-date=31 May 2021}} and Switzerland.{{Cite news |author=Agence France-Presse |title='Threat to life itself': Doctors4XR march to WHO demanding global action against health risks posed by climate change |url=https://www.firstpost.com/world/threat-to-life-itself-doctors4xr-march-to-who-demanding-global-action-against-health-risks-posed-by-climate-change-9670641.html |work=Firstpost |date=31 May 2021 |access-date=31 May 2021}}{{Cite news|title=Medics March to WHO Headquarters in Climate Campaign|url=https://www.voanews.com/a/science-health_medics-march-who-headquarters-climate-campaign/6206373.html|website=Voice of America|date=29 May 2021|access-date=31 May 2021}}

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A youth wing—XR Youth—of Extinction Rebellion had formed by July 2019.{{cite news|first1=Julie|last1=Burchill|access-date=5 October 2019|title=The People's Front of Extinction Rebellion points to a deeper divide within the Green cause|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/07/28/peoples-front-extinction-rebellion-points-deeper-divide-within/|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=28 July 2019|issn=0307-1235|via=www.telegraph.co.uk|archive-date=1 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101154954/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/07/28/peoples-front-extinction-rebellion-points-deeper-divide-within/|url-status=live}} In contrast to the main XR, it is centered around consideration of the Global South and indigenous peoples, and more concerned with climate justice.{{cite news|first1=Jessica|last1=Murray|access-date=20 October 2019|title='Older generations can't understand': XR Youth on being heard|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/19/older-generations-will-never-understand-extinction-rebellion-xr-youth-on-being-heard|newspaper=The Guardian|date=19 October 2019|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com|archive-date=2 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102165500/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/19/older-generations-will-never-understand-extinction-rebellion-xr-youth-on-being-heard|url-status=live}} By October 2019, there were 55 XR Youth groups in the UK and another 25 elsewhere. All XR Youth comprise people born after 1990, with an average age of 16, and have been as young as 10.

Believing humans to be God's stewards of the earth, XR's Christian wing, the Christian Climate Action, has been involved in numerous direct action campaigns and other protests to bring awareness of climate change and the climate crisis. It has called for churches in the UK to help alleviate poverty and inequality caused by climate change and has also written to Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, over the Church of England's lack of support for the group.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/holy-climate-crisis-extinction-rebellions-christian-wing-are-on-a-mission-to-save-gods-green-earth-sjqbp6s5g|title=Holy climate crisis! Extinction Rebellion's Christian wing are on a mission to save God's green earth|first1=Madeleine|last1=Spence|first2=Laith|last2=Al-Khalaf|work=The Times|url-access=limited}}

It has a membership of over 1000 (with around 150 taking direct action). It is associated with Camino to Cop26, a women-run faith group that walked 500 miles to the COP26 conference in Glasgow to protest world leaders' lack of action on climate change. Other groups such as Marcha a Glasgow, the Pilgrimage for Cop26 and the Young Christian Climate Network also walked to the conference; they have described the journey as a pilgrimage.{{cite news |title=They would walk 500 miles: meet the Cop26 pilgrims who got to Glasgow on foot |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/31/they-would-walk-500-miles-meet-the-cop26-pilgrims-who-got-to-glasgow-on-foot-aoe |work=The Guardian |date=31 October 2021}}{{cite news |last1=Ware |first1=Joe |title=Calls made for COP26 delay as churches mark Climate Sunday |url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2021/10-september/news/uk/calls-made-for-cop26-delay-as-churches-mark-climate-sunday |work=Church Times |date=9 September 2021}}

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Extinction Rebellion originated in the United Kingdom at a meeting of activists including Gail Bradbrook, Roger Hallam and Simon Bramwell in April 2018, at which they drew up a number of goals. About one hundred academics signed a call to action in their support in October 2018, and XR was launched on 31 October by Hallam,{{cite magazine|title=Does Extinction Rebellion Have the Solution to the Climate Crisis?|url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/does-extinction-rebellion-have-the-solution-to-the-climate-crisis|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=15 October 2019|date=21 July 2019|archive-date=22 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222142700/https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/does-extinction-rebellion-have-the-solution-to-the-climate-crisis|url-status=live}}{{cite web | title=Extinction Rebellion's co-founder on bringing London to a standstill | url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/extinction-rebellion-co-founder-gail-bradbrook-interview-a4196266.html | work=Evening Standard | access-date=15 October 2019 | date=23 July 2019 | archive-date=21 October 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021211729/https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/extinction-rebellion-co-founder-gail-bradbrook-interview-a4196266.html | url-status=live }} Bradbrook, Simon Bramwell, and other activists from the campaign group Rising Up!

Grassroots movements such as those of Occupy, Gandhi's Satyagraha, the suffragettes, Gene Sharp,{{cite web|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/opinion/2019/06/723_267234.html|title=Extinction Rebellion takes on the system: Interview with founder Roger Hallam|date=16 April 2019|website=Koreatimes|access-date=28 June 2019|archive-date=18 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218185443/http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/opinion/2019/06/723_267234.html|url-status=live}} Martin Luther King Jr. and others in the civil rights movement have been cited as sources of inspiration In seeking to rally support worldwide around a common sense of urgency to tackle climate breakdown, reference is also made to Saul Alinsky. His "Pragmatic Primer," Rules for Radicals (1972),Saul Alinsky (1971), Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals. New York: Random House is seen as offering insights as to "how we mobilise to cope with emergency", and "strike a balance between disruption and creativity".{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2019/oct/books-that-inspired-extinction-rebellion-protesters/|title=The books that inspired the Extinction Rebellion protesters|website=www.penguin.co.uk|date=21 October 2019 |access-date=26 November 2019 |archive-date=9 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009215921/https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2019/oct/books-that-inspired-extinction-rebellion-protesters//|url-status=live}} Roger Hallam has been clear that the strategy of public disruption is "heavily influenced" by the community-organizing tactician: "The essential element here is disruption. Without disruption, no one is going to give you their eyeballs".{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/19/extinction-rebellion-and-attenborough-put-climate-in-spotlight |author=Caroline Davies |title="Extinction Rebellion and Attenborough put climate in spotlight". |work=The Guardian. |date=19 April 2019}}

A number of activists in the movement accept arrest and imprisonment, similar to the mass arrest tactics of the Committee of 100 in 1961.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lifegate.com/people/news/what-is-extinction-rebellion|title=What is Extinction Rebellion, the new radical and non-violent environmental group|date=31 May 2019|website=LifeGate|language=en|access-date=11 January 2020|archive-date=11 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200111181608/https://www.lifegate.com/people/news/what-is-extinction-rebellion|url-status=live}}

On 9 December 2018, a second open letter of support signed by another hundred academics was published.{{cite web|author=Vandana Shiva|display-authors=etal|title=Act now to prevent an environmental catastrophe|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/09/act-now-to-prevent-an-environmental-catastrophe|website=The Guardian|access-date=11 December 2018|date=9 December 2018|author-link=Vandana Shiva|archive-date=12 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181212052509/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/09/act-now-to-prevent-an-environmental-catastrophe|url-status=live}}

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Extinction Rebellion has taken a variety of actions since 2018 in the UK, United States, Australia and elsewhere.[https://www.economist.com/britain/2019/10/10/how-the-anarchists-of-extinction-rebellion-got-so-well-organised How the anarchists of Extinction Rebellion got so well organised] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215742/https://www.economist.com/britain/2019/10/10/how-the-anarchists-of-extinction-rebellion-got-so-well-organised |date=27 March 2020 }}, The Economist, 10 October 2019.

On 5 October 2021, the group blocked streets in Zurich, Switzerland, demanding that the Swiss government take measures to address climate change in the country.{{Cite web|date=5 October 2021|title=Extinction Rebellion Attempts to Blockade Zurich Traffic - October 5, 2021|url=https://dailynewsbrief.com/2021/10/05/extinction-rebellion-attempts-to-blockade-zurich-traffic/|access-date=5 October 2021|website=Daily News Brief|language=en-US}}

On 4 November 2021, Extinction Rebellion demonstrators blocked the Schlumberger Gould Research Centre in west Cambridge to oppose the research into fossil fuel extraction by an American corporation. The demonstration was scheduled to coincide with the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, which is focusing on energy.{{Cite web|date=2021-11-04|title=Extinction Rebellion Cambridge blocks Schlumberger site with pink boat|url=https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/extinction-rebellion-cambridge-blocks-schlumberger-site-with-9224192/|access-date=2021-11-05|website=Cambridge Independent|language=en}}

In April 2022, activists from Extinction Rebellion blocked key bridges across London, among them two Olympic athletes. Protestors had been arrested after climbing oil tankers, anchoring themselves to structures, or blocking roads at oil depots.

In September 2024, activists from Extinction Rebellion chained themselves to the access gates of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, forcing its closure. The activists said they would only leave if the museum cuts all ties with the ING bank.{{Cite web |date=2024-09-07 |title=Rijksmuseum gesloten vanwege blokkade Extinction Rebellion |url=https://nos.nl/artikel/2536210-rijksmuseum-gesloten-vanwege-blokkade-extinction-rebellion |access-date=2024-09-07 |website=nos.nl |language=nl}}

In September 2024, activists from Extinction Rebellion covered the Finnish Parliament House in red paint, which according to testers, may not be able to be removed without damage.{{Cite web |title=Eduskuntataloa ei ehkä saada puhtaaksi – Näin Elokapina kommentoi |url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/463f7b4a-492d-4af5-8e29-6125d68edc50 |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=www.iltalehti.fi |language=fi}} Extinction Rebellion is under threat of being classified as a criminal organization and abolished due to a Citizens' Initiative which received over 70,000 signatures within a day,{{Cite web |date=6 October 2024 |title=Elokapina määrättävä lakkautettavaksi |url=https://www.kansalaisaloite.fi/fi/aloite/14143 |access-date=6 October 2024}}{{Cite web |date=2024-09-27 |title=Kansalaisaloite Elokapinan lakkauttamisesta keräsi 50 000 allekirjoitusta |url=https://yle.fi/a/74-20114523 |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=Yle Uutiset |language=fi}} in response to which, members of Extinction Rebellion have fantasized about violence and the collapse of the government.{{Cite web |date=2024-09-29 |title=Elokapina sanoutuu irti keskustelupalstansa kirjoituksista – viestissä fantasioitiin väkivallalla ja hallituksen lahtaamisella |url=https://yle.fi/a/74-20114659 |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=Yle Uutiset |language=fi}}{{Cite web |title=Elokapina käynnisti pelisääntökeskustelut – Suljetusta ryhmästä vuodettiin verenhimoisia väkivaltaviestejä |url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/d32b0967-6760-4516-872c-7318edd7a6b7 |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=www.iltalehti.fi |language=fi}}{{Cite web |date=2024-09-29 |title=Elokapina {{!}} Elokapinan sisäisellä kanavalla julkaistiin ”hallituksen lahtaamista” ihannoinut viesti – Liike irtisanoutuu |url=https://www.hs.fi/suomi/art-2000010729187.html |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=Helsingin Sanomat |language=fi}}

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In Britain in 2021, some campaigners considered that XR was being ignored by government (except for legislating against protests) and no longer had the effect needed to create real change, so other groups were formed with the idea of using mass disruption and arrest to draw attention to a very specific demand. Insulate Britain was set up to demand that the government implement measures to fit all homes with improved insulation by 2030 to improve energy efficiency thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Just Stop Oil from 2022 protested against fossil fuels. Both groups carried out disruptive protests, blocking traffic and seeking to be arrested.{{cite news| last=Shackle | first=Samira | title='We'll be hated, but it will stir things up': Insulate Britain on what happened next – and being right all along |newspaper=The Guardian | date=17 December 2022 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/17/insulate-britain-on-what-happened-next-energy-crisis}}

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Extinction Rebellion uses mass arrest as a tactic to generate attention to their cause by wasting police time and disrupting others.{{cite news|first1=Ben|last1=Smoke|access-date=21 September 2019|title=Extinction Rebellion protesters who want to be arrested: be careful what you wish for|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/15/extinction-rebellion-protesters-arrested-stansted-15|newspaper=The Guardian|date=15 April 2019|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com|archive-date=21 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190921130502/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/15/extinction-rebellion-protesters-arrested-stansted-15|url-status=live}}{{cite web|access-date=22 September 2019|title=My six months with Extinction Rebellion|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/66227e29-405e-44c1-bd6c-5ac33308cca0|date=19 July 2019|website=BBC Three|archive-date=2 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002140911/https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/66227e29-405e-44c1-bd6c-5ac33308cca0|url-status=live}} Extinction Rebellion's founders researched the histories of "the suffragettes, the Indian salt marchers, the civil rights movement and the Polish and East German democracy movements", who all used the tactic, and are applying their lessons to the climate crisis.{{cite news|first1=George|last1=Monbiot|access-date=16 October 2019|title=Today, I aim to get arrested. It is the only real power climate protesters have|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/16/i-aim-to-get-arrested-climate-protesters|newspaper=The Guardian|date=16 October 2019|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com|archive-date=16 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016151953/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/16/i-aim-to-get-arrested-climate-protesters|url-status=live}} Co-founder Roger Hallam has said "letters, emailing, marches don't work. You need about 400 people to go to prison. About two to three thousand people to be arrested."

In April 2024 Hallam was given a suspended two year sentence for attempting to block Heathrow Airport with drones, and in July 2024 he was convicted of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance by blocking the M25 motorway and sentenced to five years' imprisonment.{{cite web|first=Tom|last=Symonds|date=18 July 2024|title=Just Stop Oil protesters jailed after M25 blocked|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c880xjx54mpo|website=BBC News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240718162608/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c880xjx54mpo|archive-date=18 July 2024|url-status=live}}

In June and July 2019 some of the Extinction Rebellion supporters arrested that April appeared in court in the UK. On 25 June a 68-year-old protester was convicted of breaching a section 14 order giving police the power to clear static protests from a specified area, and given a conditional discharge.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/25/extinction-rebellion-first-protester-convicted-public-order-offence |title=Extinction Rebellion protester convicted of public order offence |newspaper=The Guardian |date=25 June 2019 |author=Matthew Taylor |access-date=13 July 2019 |archive-date=25 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190625223207/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/25/extinction-rebellion-first-protester-convicted-public-order-offence |url-status=live }} On 12 April over 30 protesters appeared in court, each charged with being a public assembly participant failing to comply with a condition imposed by a senior police officer at various locations on various dates. Some pleaded guilty, and were mostly given conditional discharges. The trials of those who pleaded not guilty are to take place in September and October.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/12/extinction-rebellion-protesters-appear-in-court-in-london |title=Extinction Rebellion protesters appear in court in London |newspaper=The Guardian |date=12 July 2019 |author=Amy Walker |access-date=13 July 2019 |archive-date=13 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713154824/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/12/extinction-rebellion-protesters-appear-in-court-in-london |url-status=live }}{{Update inline|date=September 2019}}

In London's April 2019 protests 1130 arrests were made,{{cite web|access-date=17 December 2019|title=Over 1000 Extinction Rebellion Activists Were Arrested In April – This Is What Happened To Them|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/extinction-rebellion-whats-happened-since_uk_5d496594e4b0244052e10b0c|date=7 August 2019|publisher=Huffington Post|archive-date=19 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419224113/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/extinction-rebellion-whats-happened-since_uk_5d496594e4b0244052e10b0c|url-status=live}} and during the two-week October 2019 actions in London as part of "International Rebellion", 1832 arrests were made.{{cite web|access-date=22 October 2019|title=Extinction Rebellion plot for more protests in London over Christmas|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/extinction-rebellion-protesters-plot-further-action-in-london-during-christmas-period-a4266581.html|date=21 October 2019|website=Evening Standard|archive-date=22 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022063651/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/extinction-rebellion-protesters-plot-further-action-in-london-during-christmas-period-a4266581.html|url-status=live}} This included the Green Party Member of European Parliament for the West Midlands, Ellie Chowns, as well as Green Party co-leader and Leader of the opposition on Lambeth Council, Jonathan Bartley.{{Cite web | url=https://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2019/10/16/green-party-co-leader-jonathan-bartley-arrested-at-climate-protest/ | title=Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley arrested at climate protest | the Green Party | access-date=12 January 2020 |work=www.greenparty.org.uk | archive-date=12 January 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200112004650/https://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2019/10/16/green-party-co-leader-jonathan-bartley-arrested-at-climate-protest/ | url-status=live }}

On 16{{nbsp}}November 2023, a jury acquitted nine members of XR who together had caused {{currency|500000|UK}} worth of criminal damage to the windows of the London headquarters of HSBC bank two years prior as a climate protest. The defendants did not dispute the facts of the case. The jury deliberated for just two hours before returning a verdict of not{{nbsp}}guilty.

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During the "International Rebellion", which started on 15{{Nbsp}}April 2019, actions and messages of support arrived from various sources, including a speech by actress Emma Thompson, a planned visit by school strike leader Greta Thunberg, and statements from former NASA scientist James Hansen and linguist and activist Noam Chomsky.{{cite news |last1=Watts |first1=Jonathan |last2=Gayle |first2=Damien |title=Extinction Rebellion day five centres on tussle for control of Oxford Circus |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/19/extinction-rebellion-reports-hundreds-of-people-signing-up |access-date=21 April 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=19 April 2019}}

A study conducted during the first two days of the mid-April London occupation, polling 1539 participants, found that 46% of respondents supported the rebellion;{{cite news |title=Analysis of public opinion in response to the Extinction Rebellion actions in London, April 2019 |url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dfKFPVghcb4-b9peTyCgR3pu84_8OjGR/view?usp=sharing |date=20 April 2019 |access-date=22 April 2019 |archive-date=10 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191010132331/https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dfKFPVghcb4-b9peTyCgR3pu84_8OjGR/view?usp=sharing |url-status=live }} however, an opinion poll of 3482 British adults in October 2019 found that support was lower and that 54% of respondents strongly or somewhat opposed actions aiming to "shut down London"{{Cite web|url=https://yougov.co.uk/topics/science/survey-results/daily/2019/10/15/470b6/1|title=YouGov: Climate change protesters have been carrying out their aim of disrupting roads and public transport, aiming to "shut down London" in order to bring attention to their cause. Do you support or oppose these actions?|date=15 October 2019|website=Yougov.co.uk|access-date=4 October 2020|archive-date=4 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210404000200/https://yougov.co.uk/topics/science/survey-results/daily/2019/10/15/470b6/1|url-status=live}} The protests on 17{{Nbsp}}April had blocked access to means of transport including buses, alienating travellers.{{cite web|url=https://news.sky.com/story/extinction-rebellion-london-faces-fourth-day-of-disruption-as-roadblocks-continue-11696827|title=London faces fourth day of disruption|date=18 April 2019|website=Sky News|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424071944/https://news.sky.com/story/extinction-rebellion-london-faces-fourth-day-of-disruption-as-roadblocks-continue-11696827|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://yougov.co.uk/topics/science/articles-reports/2019/04/17/john-humphrys-extinction-rebellion-noble-and-neces|title=John Humphrys – Extinction Rebellion: Noble and Necessary or a Pointless Nuisance?|last=John|first=Humphrys|date=17 April 2019|website=Yougov.co.uk|language=en-gb|access-date=27 April 2019|archive-date=27 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427195250/https://yougov.co.uk/topics/science/articles-reports/2019/04/17/john-humphrys-extinction-rebellion-noble-and-neces|url-status=live}}

In May 2019, Roger Hallam and eight others stood as candidates in the European Parliament elections in the London and the South West England constituencies as Climate Emergency Independents.Matthew Taylor, [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/26/extinction-rebellion-protesters-to-stand-in-european-elections "Extinction Rebellion protesters to stand in European elections"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702113926/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/26/extinction-rebellion-protesters-to-stand-in-european-elections |date=2 July 2019 }}, The Guardian, 26 April 2019{{Cite web|url=https://climateemergencyindependents.co.uk/election-candidates/|title=Election Candidates – The Climate & Ecological Emergency Independents |work=climateemergencyindependents.co.uk |access-date=3 July 2019 |archive-date=30 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200130125248/https://climateemergencyindependents.co.uk/election-candidates/|url-status=dead}} Between them, they won 7,416 out of the 3,917,854 total votes cast in the two constituencies.[https://lewisham.gov.uk/mayorandcouncil/elections/results/election-results-2019/european-election-2019-results/european-election-2019---london-wide-results European election 2019 – London-wide results] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190527120245/https://lewisham.gov.uk/mayorandcouncil/elections/results/election-results-2019/european-election-2019-results/european-election-2019---london-wide-results |date=27 May 2019 }}, Lewisham Council[https://www.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/Council-and-Democratic/Elections-and-voting/Elections/European-Parliamentary-Election-Results-2019/Results-of-European-Parliamentary-Election-2019.aspx Results of European Parliamentary Election 2019 – South West Region] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190619154621/https://www.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/Council-and-Democratic/Elections-and-voting/Elections/European-Parliamentary-Election-Results-2019/Results-of-European-Parliamentary-Election-2019.aspx |date=19 June 2019 }}, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council

In June 2019, 1,000 healthcare professionals in the UK and elsewhere, including professors, public health figures, and former presidents of royal colleges, called for widespread non-violent civil disobedience in response to "woefully inadequate" government policies on the unfolding ecological emergency. They called on politicians and the news media to face the facts of the unfolding ecological emergency and take action. They supported the school strike movement and Extinction Rebellion.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/27/doctors-call-for-nonviolent-direct-action-over-climate-crisis |title=Doctors call for nonviolent direct action over climate crisis |newspaper=The Guardian |author=Matthew Taylor |date=27 June 2019 |access-date=27 June 2019 |archive-date=27 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627110758/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/27/doctors-call-for-nonviolent-direct-action-over-climate-crisis |url-status=live }}

In July 2019, Trevor Neilson, Rory Kennedy and Aileen Getty launched the Climate Emergency Fund (CEF),{{cite web|access-date=24 July 2019|title=Climate activists, including Extinction Rebellion, to receive £500,000 from US philanthropists|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/extinction-rebellion-climate-activists-us-donation-money-a9002466.html|date=12 July 2019|website=The Independent|archive-date=12 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712211608/https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/extinction-rebellion-climate-activists-us-donation-money-a9002466.html|url-status=live}} inspired by Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion protesters in the UK in April.{{cite news|first1=Matthew|last1=Taylor|access-date=24 July 2019|title=US philanthropists vow to raise millions for climate activists|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/12/us-philanthropists-vow-to-raise-millions-for-climate-activists|newspaper=The Guardian|date=12 July 2019|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com|archive-date=21 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190721183207/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/12/us-philanthropists-vow-to-raise-millions-for-climate-activists|url-status=live}} It donated almost half a million pounds to Extinction Rebellion groups in New York City and Los Angeles and school strike for climate groups in the US. In September 2019 Getty pledged $600,000 (£487,000) to the Fund.{{cite news|first1=Katie|last1=O'Neill|access-date=8 September 2019|title=Getty heiress donates £500,000 to fund that backs Extinction Rebellion|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/06/getty-heiress-donates-500000-fund-backs-extinction-rebellion/|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=6 September 2019|issn=0307-1235|via=www.telegraph.co.uk|archive-date=7 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190907081601/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/06/getty-heiress-donates-500000-fund-backs-extinction-rebellion/|url-status=live}}

Christopher Hohn gave £50,000 to the group and the charity he co-founded, The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (TCI), has donated more than £150,000.{{cite news|first1=Hayley|last1=Dixon|access-date=20 October 2019|title=Extinction Rebellion funded by charity set up by one of Britain's richest men|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/10/extinction-rebellion-funded-charity-set-one-britains-richest/|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=10 October 2019|issn=0307-1235|via=www.telegraph.co.uk|archive-date=19 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191019174849/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/10/extinction-rebellion-funded-charity-set-one-britains-richest/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|access-date=20 October 2019|title=Donations pour in as Extinction Rebellion goes global|url=https://www.ft.com/content/321f4402-ec31-11e9-85f4-d00e5018f061|website=Financial Times|date=11 October 2019|archive-date=20 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191020125305/https://www.ft.com/content/321f4402-ec31-11e9-85f4-d00e5018f061|url-status=live|last1=Hook|first1=Leslie}} As of January 2022, TCI was the single biggest individual donor to Extinction Rebellion.{{Cite web |last=Neate |first=Rupert |date=2022-01-17 |title=Extinction Rebellion donor leads world's top-performing hedge fund |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jan/17/billionaire-philanthropist-leads-worlds-top-performing-hedge-funds |access-date=2022-08-05 |website=The Guardian |language=en}} In 2019, TCI said that none of its money was spent on civil disobedience.{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/10/extinction-rebellion-funded-charity-set-one-britains-richest/|title=Extinction Rebellion funded by charity set up by one of Britain's richest men|last=Dixon|first=Hayley|date=10 October 2019|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=20 October 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}{{Relevant|date=November 2023}}

In October 2019, the Financial Times wrote that Extinction Rebellion's total fundraising was "just over £2.5m in the past 12 months."{{Cite news |date=2019-10-11 |title=Donations pour in as Extinction Rebellion goes global |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/321f4402-ec31-11e9-85f4-d00e5018f061 |access-date=2022-10-16}}

Michael Stipe is a supporter, with all profits from his debut solo single "Your Capricious Soul" going to Extinction Rebellion.{{cite news|first1=Miranda|last1=Sawyer|access-date=20 October 2019|title=It's the end of the world as we know it... and Michael Stipe feels fine|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/oct/20/michael-stipe-photography-art-solo-single-extinction-rebellion|newspaper=The Observer|date=20 October 2019|issn=0029-7712|via=www.theguardian.com|archive-date=20 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191020124031/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/oct/20/michael-stipe-photography-art-solo-single-extinction-rebellion|url-status=live}}{{cite web|access-date=20 October 2019|title=REM frontman Michael Stipe to give proceeds of debut solo single to 'optimistic' Extinction Rebellion|url=https://www.itv.com/news/2019-10-11/former-rem-frontman-michael-stipe-to-give-proceeds-of-debut-solo-single-to-optimistic-extinction-rebellion/|website=ITV News|date=11 October 2019|archive-date=20 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191020210032/https://www.itv.com/news/2019-10-11/former-rem-frontman-michael-stipe-to-give-proceeds-of-debut-solo-single-to-optimistic-extinction-rebellion/|url-status=live}}

On 6 February 2020, the environmental organization Mobilize Earth debuted Guardians of Life, the first of twelve short films that highlight the most pressing issues facing humanity and the natural world. Funds raised by the project went to Amazon Watch and Extinction Rebellion.{{cite web

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In September 2021, YouGov asked 3,296 British adults for their opinions on Extinction Rebellion, of which 19% were "fairly positive" or "very positive", and 49% were "very negative" or "fairly negative".{{cite web|date=3 September 2021|title=Do you have a positive or negative view of Extinction Rebellion (sometimes shortened to "XR")?|url=https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2021/09/03/3ee46/1|access-date=7 November 2021|publisher=YouGov}}

The XR UK web site list the terms of service are under “Extinction Rebellion UK (Compassionate Revolution Ltd)”. {{cite web

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Ben Smoke, one of the Stansted 15, writing in The Guardian, criticised XR's tactic of mass arrest. He wrote for XR to casually speak of imprisonment undermines the negative experiences of incarceration on Black, Asian and minority ethnic people in the UK. He also wrote that for XR to be supporting peoples' court cases risks drawing significant "resources, time, money and energy" from the environmental movement, from the individuals involved, and which could otherwise be directed towards people most affected by climate change. Smoke instead recommended tactics that are not only the preserve of those able to afford the expense and time of arrest. He also wrote that though mass arrests may be intended to cause government to focus more on tackling climate change, it might instead cause government to increase anti-protest legislation.

The critique of XR's middle class white privilege, that its mass arrest tactic does not consider that people of colour will not be treated as leniently by the system as white people, was also highlighted in an open letter from Wretched of the Earth, an environmental group that focuses on black, brown and indigenous voices, to XR.{{cite web|last1=Garavito|first1=Tatiana|last2=Thanki|first2=Nathan|access-date=22 September 2019|title=Stop Asking People of Color to Get Arrested to Protest Climate Change |work=www.vice.com |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbm3q4/extinction-rebellion-xr-is-shaped-by-middle-class-white-people-it-does-not-serve-people-of-color|date=18 September 2019|archive-date=21 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190921113315/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbm3q4/extinction-rebellion-xr-is-shaped-by-middle-class-white-people-it-does-not-serve-people-of-color|url-status=live}} The group responded to this critique with a thank you, pointing out their solidarity and commitment to diversity of membership as well diversity in styles of engagement (for example, one does not need to volunteer for a prison term in order to be an active member of XR).{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/XRBristol/posts/896006247410515|title=Extinction Rebellion Bristol|website=www.facebook.com|language=en|access-date=11 January 2020|archive-date=19 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419224052/https://www.facebook.com/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FXRBristol%2Fposts%2F896006247410515|url-status=live}}

Some in Extinction Rebellion have also called attention to Martin Luther King Jr. (one of XR's guiding inspirations{{Cite web|date=1 May 2019|title=Now we know: conventional campaigning won't prevent our extinction {{!}} Roger Hallam|url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/01/extinction-rebellion-non-violent-civil-disobedience|access-date=10 March 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en|archive-date=9 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309033814/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/01/extinction-rebellion-non-violent-civil-disobedience|url-status=live}}) in this regard, noting that his call for civil disobedience to end segregation was a call directed toward all who were willing and able, regardless of race or colour.{{Cite web|last=Alexander|first=Samuel|title=Extinction Rebellion protesters might be annoying. But they have a point|url=http://theconversation.com/extinction-rebellion-protesters-might-be-annoying-but-they-have-a-point-124490|access-date=10 March 2021|website=The Conversation|date=8 October 2019 |language=en|archive-date=20 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120164136/https://theconversation.com/extinction-rebellion-protesters-might-be-annoying-but-they-have-a-point-124490|url-status=live}}

When the movement expanded to the US, a fourth demand was added to that group's list of demands: for a "just transition that prioritises the most vulnerable and indigenous sovereignty [and] establishes reparations and remediation led by and for black people, indigenous people, people of colour and poor communities for years of environmental injustice."

Karen Bell, senior lecturer in human geography and environmental justice at the University of West of England, Bristol, wrote in The Guardian that environmental groups such as Extinction Rebellion are not strongly rooted in working-class organisations and communities, which she said is a problem because building the broad-based support necessary for a radical transition to sustainability requires contributions from all strands of environmentalism, especially working class.{{cite news|first1=Karen|last1=Bell|access-date=13 October 2019|title=A working-class green movement is out there but not getting the credit it deserves|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/a-working-class-green-movement-is-out-there-but-not-getting-the-credit-it-deserves|newspaper=The Guardian|date=11 October 2019|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com|archive-date=14 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191014002331/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/a-working-class-green-movement-is-out-there-but-not-getting-the-credit-it-deserves|url-status=live}} Labour Party shadow cabinet member Lisa Nandy criticised the organisation in The Guardian in October 2019, saying "calls for individual action can't just be modelled on the lifestyles of middle class city dwellers".{{Cite web|date=2 October 2019|title=The climate protest movement must not alienate Britain's working classes {{!}} Lisa Nandy|url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/02/climate-protest-alienate-britains-working-classes-extinction-rebellion|access-date=30 August 2021|website=the Guardian|language=en}}

George Monbiot has also written in The Guardian that "Extinction Rebellion is too white, and too middle class." The Canning Town protest, in which two activists scaled a train at Canning Town station, then kicked working class commuters who attempted to remove them from the train before being dragged onto the platform and mobbed,{{Cite news|last=Magra|first=Iliana|date=2019-10-17|title=Commuters Drag Climate Activists From London Trains|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/17/world/europe/extinction-rebellion-london-underground.html|access-date=2022-02-19|issn=0362-4331}} focused attention on class issues and led to an apology from an XR spokesman.{{cite web|last1=Dazed|access-date=18 October 2019|title=Don't be fooled into thinking that climate activism is just for poshos|url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/46460/1/extinction-rebellion-climate-change-activism-middle-class-issue|date=17 October 2019|website=Dazed|archive-date=18 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191018180455/https://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/46460/1/extinction-rebellion-climate-change-activism-middle-class-issue|url-status=live}}{{cite web|access-date=18 October 2019|title=Opinion: Extinction Rebellion's treatment of class and race blocks its goal of climate justice|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/extinction-rebellion-climate-crisis-race-class-london-arrests-xr-a9156816.html|date=15 October 2019|website=The Independent|archive-date=18 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191018180454/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/extinction-rebellion-climate-crisis-race-class-london-arrests-xr-a9156816.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|access-date=18 October 2019|title=How Extinction Rebellion Inadvertently Stoked A Class War|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/extinction-rebellion-class_uk_5da87b08e4b0b24e75de6419|date=18 October 2019|website=HuffPost UK|archive-date=14 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210314184422/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/extinction-rebellion-class_uk_5da87b08e4b0b24e75de6419|url-status=live}}{{cite news|first1=Charlotte|last1=Gill|access-date=18 October 2019|title=Extinction Rebellion have turned climate change into a class war|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/17/extinction-rebellion-have-turned-climate-change-class-war/|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=17 October 2019|issn=0307-1235|via=www.telegraph.co.uk|archive-date=18 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191018180452/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/17/extinction-rebellion-have-turned-climate-change-class-war/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|first1=Tom|last1=Ball|first2=Ben|last2=Webster|first3=Esther|last3=Webber|access-date=18 October 2019|title=Extinction Rebellion apologises after commuters drag protester off train|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/commuters-clash-with-extinction-rebellion-climate-protesters-on-london-underground-v25z5gmnn|newspaper=The Times|date=18 October 2019|issn=0140-0460|via=www.thetimes.co.uk|archive-date=18 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191018051652/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/commuters-clash-with-extinction-rebellion-climate-protesters-on-london-underground-v25z5gmnn|url-status=live}}{{cite web|access-date=17 October 2019|title=XR admit Tube protest was 'own goal' because it annoyed people|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/extinction-rebellion-admits-rushhour-tube-protest-was-own-goal-because-it-annoyed-commuters-a4263776.html|date=17 October 2019|website=Evening Standard|archive-date=17 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191017105636/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/extinction-rebellion-admits-rushhour-tube-protest-was-own-goal-because-it-annoyed-commuters-a4263776.html|url-status=live}}

According to the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, which supports XR's course of strong action and demands, the time frame being urged by XR is "an ambition that technically, economically and politically has absolutely no chance of being fulfilled." Due to the inaction of governments in the past, it would be difficult to achieve net zero in such a short time frame. It said that one way to go net zero by 2025 would include the scrapping of flying and 38 million petrol and diesel cars would need to be removed from the roads. Twenty-six million gas boilers would need to be disconnected in six years.{{cite news |last1=Simpson |first1=John |last2=Webster |first2=Ben |last3=Humpries |first3=Will |title=Protest police call for re-inforcements |work=The Times |issue=72,824 |date=18 April 2019 |page=9}} The Rapid Transition Alliance and the Centre for Alternative Technology are more positive about the date specified.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cat.org.uk/can-we-reach-zero-carbon-by-2025/|title=Can we reach zero carbon by 2025?|date=25 April 2019|website=Centre for Alternative Technology|access-date=21 January 2020 |archive-date=25 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925161320/https://www.cat.org.uk/can-we-reach-zero-carbon-by-2025/|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47947775|title=Extinction Rebellion: Can the plan work?|first=Matt|last=McGrath|work=BBC News|date=16 April 2019|access-date=21 January 2020 |archive-date=14 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191014131740/https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47947775|url-status=live}}

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A report called "Extremism Rebellion" by Policy Exchange, a UK-based conservative think tank, said that Extinction Rebellion is an extremist organisation seeking the breakdown of liberal democracy and the rule of law,{{cite web|last1=Walton|first1=Richard|last2=Wilson|first2=Tom|url=https://policyexchange.org.uk/publication/extremism-rebellion/|url-status=live|title=Extremism Rebellion|publisher=Policy Exchange|date=16 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191225164112/https://policyexchange.org.uk/publication/extremism-rebellion/|archive-date=25 December 2019|access-date=25 December 2019}} and called for the criminalisation of the group; the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 was based on the 2019 report by Policy Exchange, which received in 2017 a $30,000 donation by US-based oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil,{{cite news|last=Horton|first=Helen|date=15 June 2022|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/15/thinktank-that-briefed-against-xr-given-30k-by-exxon-mobil-in-2017|url-status=live|title=Thinktank that briefed against XR given $30k by ExxonMobil in 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615234839/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/15/thinktank-that-briefed-against-xr-given-30k-by-exxon-mobil-in-2017|archive-date=15 June 2022|access-date=18 June 2022}}{{cite web|last=Bychawski|first=Adam|date=16 June 2022|url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/think-tanks-adam-smith-policy-exchange-legatum-iea-taxpayers-alliance-climate-denial/|url-status=live|title=Exclusive: US climate deniers pump millions into Tory-linked think tanks|website=OpenDemocracy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220617082727/https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/think-tanks-adam-smith-policy-exchange-legatum-iea-taxpayers-alliance-climate-denial/|archive-date=17 June 2022|access-date=18 June 2022}} to target Extinction Rebellion.{{cite web|last=Bychawski|first=Adam|date=15 June 2022|url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/policing-bill-policy-exchange-exxonmobil-lobbying/|url-status=live|title=Revealed: Policing bill was dreamed up by secretive oil-funded think tank|website=OpenDemocracy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615163434/https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/policing-bill-policy-exchange-exxonmobil-lobbying/|archive-date=15 June 2022|access-date=18 June 2022}}

In 2019, the South East Counter Terrorism Unit police authority listed Extinction Rebellion, alongside neo-Nazi and Islamist terrorist groups, as a threat in a guide titled "Safeguarding young people and adults from ideological extremism". After media inquiries, they recalled and disavowed this guide,{{cite news|last1=Dodd|first1=Vikram|last2=Grierson|first2=Jamie|date=10 January 2020|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/10/xr-extinction-rebellion-listed-extremist-ideology-police-prevent-scheme-guidance|url-status=live|title=Terrorism police list Extinction Rebellion as extremist ideology|newspaper=The Guardian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200110172313/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/10/xr-extinction-rebellion-listed-extremist-ideology-police-prevent-scheme-guidance|archive-date=10 January 2020|access-date=10 January 2020}} saying the presence of Extinction Rebellion was an error. Priti Patel, who advocated for the aforementioned policing bill, defended the decision to designate Extinction Rebellion as an extremist group after the guide was disavowed.

In 2023, BBC News reported that climate activists were being referred to the Prevent strategy, a counterterrorism scheme aimed at identifying extremists who may become violent. Between 2015 and 2022, 32 individuals had been referred to Prevent for "Left Wing - Environmental" reasons, and a 2019 spike in reports was associated with the rise of Extinction Rebellion. The Prevent strategy, in general and in its specific use against environmental activists, has been criticised as having a chilling effect on freedom of expression.{{cite news |date=23 December 2023 |title=Prevent: Rise in climate activists referred to anti-terror scheme |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67665218 |work=BBC News}}

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Extinction Rebellion's third demand ("Government must create and be led by the decisions of a Citizens' Assembly on climate and ecological justice") has been summarised by its leadership as a demand to "go beyond politics".{{cite web |url=https://extinctionrebellion.uk/the-truth/demands/ |title=Our Demands |author= |website=Extinction Rebellion UK |access-date=5 September 2020 |archive-date=27 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327161304/https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/demands/ |url-status=live }} This demand has been criticised by socialists, including individuals who have participated in the movement's action. Writing for The Independent in April 2019, Natasha Josette, an anti-racist activist and member of Labour for a Green New Deal, critiqued Extinction Rebellion both for marginalising ethnic minorities and for not recognising that "the climate crisis is the result of neoliberal capitalism, and a global system of extraction, dispossession and oppression".{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/extinction-rebellion-arrests-london-protests-climate-change-people-colour-global-south-a8879846.html |title=People of colour are the most impacted by climate change, yet Extinction Rebellion is erasing them from the conversation |last=Josette |first=Natasha |date=21 April 2019 |website=independent.co.uk |access-date=5 September 2020 |archive-date=7 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107230729/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/extinction-rebellion-arrests-london-protests-climate-change-people-colour-global-south-a8879846.html |url-status=live }} Also writing for The Independent, Amardeep Dhillon argued that XR's narrow focus on net zero carbon emissions meant that it ignored extractivism and the threat to the environment posed by companies in the extractive sector using greenwashing to defend and advance their economic interests, suggesting that XR's position "threatens to give carte blanche to governments and corporations who are happy to shift the burden of climate destruction onto poor and indigenous communities of colour in the global South".{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/extinction-rebellion-climate-crisis-bhp-mining-coal-colombia-a9167601.html |title=Extinction Rebellion must decide if it is anti-capitalist – and this greenwashing mining company shows us why |last=Dhillon |first=Amardeep |date=23 October 2019 |website=independent.co.uk |access-date=5 September 2020 |archive-date=24 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524035130/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/extinction-rebellion-climate-crisis-bhp-mining-coal-colombia-a9167601.html |url-status=live }}

In October 2019, Erica Eisen, an XR participant, wrote an article for Current Affairs in which she linked the movement's "beyond politics" slogan not only to the demand for a citizens' assembly but also to a refusal to take stances on issues beyond the environment, in order to gain as broad a base of support as possible, highlighting the movement's ban on organising community groups based on political identity. She argued that "our current economic system is [not] compatible with continued life on this planet. It is unrealistic and irresponsible to pretend that a proposed climate solution which keeps capitalism intact is any kind of solution at all." In her view, failing to articulate an anti-capitalist position undermined the movement's credibility by "lend[ing] tacit support" to large companies responsible for environmentally destructive behaviour. She also suggested that failing to embrace leftist positions would give space for far right groups to piggyback and exploit environmentalist rhetoric, citing the examples of the Christchurch mosque shootings and 2019 El Paso shooting, both of whose perpetrators left manifestos which mentioned environmental concerns.{{cite web |url=https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2019/10/extinction-rebellion-has-a-politics-problem |title=Extinction Rebellion Has a Politics Problem |last=Eisen |first=Erica X |date=11 October 2019 |website=Current Affairs |access-date=5 September 2020 |archive-date=10 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010114434/https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/10/extinction-rebellion-has-a-politics-problem |url-status=live }} Writing for i-D in December 2019, Nathalie Olah drew parallels between XR and earlier decentralised protest movements such as the events of May 68 in France and the Occupy movement, suggesting that a shared lack of clarity in concrete demands had stunted the political impact of the latter two movements and arguing that climate change and class politics were "inextricable" as "a small minority are responsible for a high proportion of emissions, and because the poorest stand to face the worst repercussions".{{cite web |url=https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/gyz43y/extinction-rebellion-photography-protest-class-green-climate-crisis |title=What Extinction Rebellion needs to change before we can save the world |last=Olah |first=Nathalie |date=4 December 2019 |website=i-D |access-date=5 September 2020 |archive-date=26 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126022700/https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/gyz43y/extinction-rebellion-photography-protest-class-green-climate-crisis |url-status=live }}

Extinction Rebellion has been accused of being a cult by the media, environmental activists as well as several former senior XR members. Sherrie Yeomans, coordinator of XR blockades in the English city of Bristol accused the group of being a manipulative cult and former XR spokeswoman Zion Lights accused Roger Hallam of creating a cult by fear-mongering such as when he forced her to claim that 6 billion would die by the end of the century due to climate change and further claimed that he compared himself to a prophet.{{cite news |title='Extinction Rebellion' Dubbed Cult, But Supporters Say Radical Change Needed |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/europe_extinction-rebellion-dubbed-cult-supporters-say-radical-change-needed/6173423.html |access-date=5 March 2023 |work=VOA |language=en}} Hallam had compared climate change to the Holocaust and claimed that the climate crisis would lead to mass rape and has called for the overthrow of governments even if it results in deaths resulting in him being accused of fostering a death cult.{{cite news |last1=Romano |first1=Aja |title=How many van Goghs is one Earth worth? |url=https://www.vox.com/culture/23414590/just-stop-oil-van-gogh-sunflowers-protest-climate-change |access-date=5 March 2023 |work=Vox |date=20 October 2022 |language=en}} German former Green Party politician Jutta Ditfurth accused it of being a doomsday cult with members blindly following esoteric gurus.{{cite news |title=XR: Climate militancy despite coronavirus pandemic – DW – 06/12/2020 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/extinction-rebellion-climate-protest-despite-coronavirus-pandemic/a-53786217 |access-date=5 March 2023 |work=dw.com |language=en}}

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Analysis of the October 2019 "International Rebellion" indicates that "the movement was mentioned more than 70,000 times in online media reports. Of these, 43.5% of online coverage was in the UK followed by 15.2% from Germany, 14.6% in Australia and 12.1% in the US."{{cite news|first1=Mark|last1=Townsend|access-date=21 October 2019|title=Tube protest was a mistake, admit leading Extinction Rebellion members|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/20/extinction-rebellion-tube-protest-was-a-mistake|newspaper=The Observer|date=20 October 2019|issn=0029-7712|via=www.theguardian.com|archive-date=21 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021094701/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/20/extinction-rebellion-tube-protest-was-a-mistake|url-status=live}}

In 2021, a documentary entitled Rebellion was released to UK Netflix and other streaming services across the globe.{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://rebellion-documentary.com/ |access-date=2024-03-05 |website=Rebellion |language=en}} The documentary looks behind the scenes of XR and the creators.

Dávid Szőke and Sándor Kiss in Film International expressed criticism of the short films Extinction (2019) and Guardians of Life (2020), stating, "It is no doubt that film is one of the most meaningful ways of facilitating changes in our world. While Extinction and Guardians of Life declare 'nonviolent open rebellion' and the urge to action for the survival of our natural world, the divergence between their stated ideals and their disruptive tactics in shaping public understanding of climate-related issues point toward starkly opposite directions. Despite their alleged advocacy of environmental issues, the involvement of such movie stars as Emma Thompson or Joaquin Phoenix redirects attention to their celebrity status, eclipsing the focus on the ecological solutions they should represent. Thus, these films can be viewed as nothing more than glossy facades, effectively disguising the radical environmental actions of XR activists under a more inclusive, media-friendly veneer."{{cite web|url=https://filmint.nu/jack-cooper-stimpsons-extinction-and-shaun-monsons-guardians-of-life-2020-david-szoke-and-sandor-kiss/|title=Environmental Action in Opposite Directions: Extinction (2019) and Guardians of Life (2020)|last1=Szőke|first1= Dávid|last2=Kiss|first2=Sándor|date=February 18, 2024|work=Film International|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219065739/http://filmint.nu/jack-cooper-stimpsons-extinction-and-shaun-monsons-guardians-of-life-2020-david-szoke-and-sandor-kiss/|archive-date=February 19, 2024|access-date=February 19, 2024}}

• This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook. London: Penguin, 2019. {{ISBN|978-0-14-199144-3}}.{{cite news|first1=Alison|last1=Flood|access-date=18 July 2019|title=Extinction Rebellion rushes activists' handbook This Is Not a Drill into print|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/26/extinction-rebellion-rushes-activists-handbook-this-is-not-a-drill-into-print|newspaper=The Guardian|date=26 April 2019|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=13 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190813035205/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/26/extinction-rebellion-rushes-activists-handbook-this-is-not-a-drill-into-print|url-status=live}}{{cite web|access-date=18 July 2019|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232360-400-the-extinction-rebellion-book-is-short-on-science-but-big-on-action/|website=New Scientist|title=The Extinction Rebellion book is short on science but big on action|archive-date=1 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190701175139/https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232360-400-the-extinction-rebellion-book-is-short-on-science-but-big-on-action/|url-status=live}}
• Our Fight. By Juliana Muniz Westcott. 2019. {{ISBN|978-1-79325-836-6}}.
• The Hourglass. Issue 1. September 2019. Newspaper.{{cite news|first1=Sam|last1=Wollaston|access-date=26 September 2019|title='I'm not getting much Take a Break': Extinction Rebellion's newspaper, reviewed|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2019/sep/25/extinction-rebellion-newspaper-hourglass-reviewed|newspaper=The Guardian|date=25 September 2019|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=26 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926092031/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2019/sep/25/extinction-rebellion-newspaper-hourglass-reviewed|url-status=live}} Edited by Zion Lights. 110,000 copies were printed.
• The Hourglass. Issue 2. October 2019. Newspaper. Edited by Zion Lights.

• Conscientious protectors: a story of rebellion against extinction. Full{{nbhyph}}length documentary. London release 25{{nbsp}}July 2022.

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• My extinction. A{{nbsp}}personal film by Josh Appignanesi, released 30{{nbsp}}June 2023, on his experiences becoming active, including with{{nbsp}}XR.

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• Climate movement
• Ende Gelände
• Environmental direct action in the United Kingdom
• Global Climate March
• Individual action on climate change
• People's Climate March
• School Strike for Climate
• Scientist Rebellion
• Sunrise Movement
• The Climate Mobilization
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• {{cite book |last1=Bell |first1=Karen |title=Diversity and Inclusion in Environmentalism |date=2021 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-003-09918-5 |chapter=Working-class people, Extinction Rebellion and the environmental movements of the Global North}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Bell |first1=Karen |last2=Bevan |first2=Gnisha |title=Beyond inclusion? Perceptions of the extent to which Extinction Rebellion speaks to, and for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and working-class communities |journal=Local Environment |date=2021 |volume=26 |issue=10 |pages=1205–1220 |doi=10.1080/13549839.2021.1970728|bibcode=2021LoEnv..26.1205B |s2cid=237586620 |doi-access=free }}
• {{cite book |last1=Berglund |first1=Oscar |last2=Schmidt |first2=Daniel |title=Extinction Rebellion and Climate Change Activism: Breaking the Law to Change the World |date=2020 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-3-030-48359-3 |language=en}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Booth |first1=Ella |title=Extinction Rebellion: social work, climate change and solidarity |journal=Critical and Radical Social Work |date=2019 |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=257–261 |doi=10.1332/204986019X15623302985296|s2cid=202307547 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Buzogány |first1=Aron |last2=Scherhaufer |first2=Patrick |title=Framing different energy futures? Comparing Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion in Germany |journal=Futures |date=2022 |volume=137 |page=102904 |doi=10.1016/j.futures.2022.102904|s2cid=245979102 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Demos |first1=T. J. |title=Extinction Rebellions |journal=Afterimage |date=2020 |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=14–20 |doi=10.1525/aft.2020.472004|s2cid=242324505 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Fotaki |first1=Marianna |last2=Foroughi |first2=Hamid |title=Extinction Rebellion: Green activism and the fantasy of leaderlessness in a decentralized movement |journal=Leadership |date=2022 |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=224–246 |doi=10.1177/17427150211005578|s2cid=235559590 |doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Furlong |first1=Caitlin |last2=Vignoles |first2=Vivian L |title=Social Identification in Collective Climate Activism: Predicting Participation in the Environmental Movement, Extinction Rebellion |journal=Identity |date=2021 |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=20–35 |doi=10.1080/15283488.2020.1856664|s2cid=231713727 |url=http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/96462/1/VIGNOLES_Identity_Nov_2020.pdf }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Gunningham |first1=Neil |title=Averting Climate Catastrophe: Environmental Activism, Extinction Rebellion and coalitions of Influence |journal=King's Law Journal |date=2019 |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=194–202 |doi=10.1080/09615768.2019.1645424|s2cid=203063534 }}
• {{cite book |last1=Richardson |first1=Benjamin J. |title=From Student Strikes to the Extinction Rebellion: New Protest Movements Shaping our Future |date=2020 |publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing |isbn=978-1-80088-109-9 |language=en}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Slaven |first1=Mike |last2=Heydon |first2=James |title=Crisis, deliberation, and Extinction Rebellion |journal=Critical Studies on Security |date=2020 |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=59–62 |doi=10.1080/21624887.2020.1735831|s2cid=216397685 |url=https://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/40153/1/Slaven%20and%20Heydon%202020%20AOM.docx }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Smiles |first1=Tom |last2=Edwards |first2=Gareth A. S. |title=How does Extinction Rebellion engage with climate justice? A case study of XR Norwich |journal=Local Environment |date=2021 |volume=26 |issue=12 |pages=1445–1460 |doi=10.1080/13549839.2021.1974367|bibcode=2021LoEnv..26.1445S |s2cid=239440150 |doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Stuart |first1=Diana |title=Radical Hope: Truth, Virtue, and Hope for What Is Left in Extinction Rebellion |journal=Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics |date=2020 |volume=33 |issue=3–6 |pages=487–504 |doi=10.1007/s10806-020-09835-y|s2cid=228870367 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Stuart |first1=Diana |title=Tensions between individual and system change in the climate movement: an analysis of Extinction Rebellion |journal=New Political Economy |date=2022 |volume=27 |issue=5 |pages=806–819 |doi=10.1080/13563467.2021.2020740|s2cid=252123238 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Westwell |first1=Emily |last2=Bunting |first2=Josh |title=The regenerative culture of Extinction Rebellion: self-care, people care, planet care |journal=Environmental Politics |date=2020 |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=546–551 |doi=10.1080/09644016.2020.1747136|bibcode=2020EnvPo..29..546W |s2cid=216256853 |url=https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/7939/1/XR%20Regen%20Profile%20neil%20edits%20%281%29.pdf }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Zantvoort |first1=Fleur |title=Movement pedagogies in pandemic times: Extinction Rebellion Netherlands and (un)learning from the margins |journal=Globalizations |date=2021 |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=278–291 |doi=10.1080/14747731.2021.2009319|doi-access=free }}

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