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Rebels and activists from African movements protest at the African Energies Summit in London.
This issue: Spanish Rebellion | Stop The Scramble For Africa | Growth Kills! |
Dear rebel,
Last month was the hottest May on record, marking an entire year of continuous record-breaking global temperatures, and offering yet more evidence that the planet’s weather system is unravelling.
While 600,000 people were displaced by unprecedented floods in the south of Brazil, the north of the country was undergoing a record-breaking heatwave. As people died from heatstroke in the 52.3°C air of Delhi, people in the East of India were drowning in the rains of a cyclone.
This is the world that fossil fuels have given us, with extreme weather reaping random destruction in nearly every region of the world simultaneously. It is no wonder that climate scientists are in despair.
A week of Spanish rebellion finishes with a march through central Madrid.
But last month also saw rebels rise up to take down the fossil fuel industry, and stop us slipping further into this new norm of killer weather and chaos.
In Action Highlights, we report on a spectacular week of rebellion in Spain that targeted fossil fuel subsidies. We also cover how XR UK and an alliance of African groups disrupted oil executives as they planned yet another plunder of Africa during a secret summit in London.
For Humans of XR we speak to an incredible young rebel resisting the oil industry in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, and in Solidarity Corner we profile Growth Kills, a new group exposing how our growth-dependent economic system is keeping us wedded to the fossil fuel era.
Growth Kills blockade the European Commission in the run-up to EU elections.
To end on a bright note, an IPCC climate scientist has been elected as president of Mexico, the first time a climate scientist has become a national leader.
For a country suffering from a series of killer heatwaves, and a capital city that is close to running out of water, the end of business-as-usual can’t come soon enough. If she cuts ties with her pro-fossil fuel predecessor, and fulfils the green promises of her campaign, we could finally have a world leader to believe in.
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