The woman who led the negotiations for the Paris Agreement has called in a new book for political engagement on climate change that goes well beyond the voting booth.
In a book out tomorrow, the woman who led the negotiations for the Paris Agreement calls for civil disobedience to force institutions to respond to the climate crisis.
“It’s time to participate in non-violent political movements wherever possible,” Christiana Figueres writes inFigueres served as executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010-16. She co-authored the book with her strategic advisor, Tom Rivett-Carnac. The two also support voting:as their number one priority,” they write.
But they note that electoral politics have failed to meet the challenge, largely because of systemic roadblocks including corporate lobbying and partisan opposition. They endorse Extinction Rebellion and Greta Thunberg. They evoke legendary activists who effected change on the scale required by the climate crisis, including Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela.
“Civil disobedience is not only a moral choice, it is also the most powerful way of shaping world politics,” they write, citing“Historically, systemic political shifts have required civil disobedience on a significant scale. Few have occurred without it.”Figueres spoke out once before in support of Extinction Rebellion, Thunberg and civil disobedience, last April during ER’s London strikes:
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