The activist manifesto I pitched at Davos

It was a surreal experience to hand this candidly written activist manifesto to a few of the world’s most powerful people at the World Economic Forum in Davos. My intention in drafting this strategy briefing was to lay out in the most direct way possible what is at stake both for activists and elites in a united front for climate action. I’ve taken it to the Forum and I’m taking it to Extinction Rebellion.

Now I want to know: is this something that you could get behind?

AN ALLIANCE OF OPPOSITES

What we need

The 2020s will be defined by the collective race to drastically reduce global carbon emissions.

The scale of the reduction necessary — a 7.6 per cent decrease each year for 10 years — is unachievable without an unprecedented global social mobilization for massive climate reduction efforts, such as planting one trillion trees.

The mobilization will involve hundreds of millions of people spread across 195 countries. It will require the periodic suspension of everyday work, life, and travel.

Beginning from where we are

The global climate mobilization must start today with the governments that exist now, the activists who are alive now and the distribution of wealth and power as it…