Dr. Gail Bradbrook, a mother of two boys, has seen enough of her government’s complicity in pumping increasing amounts of CO2 and methane into an already overburdened atmosphere.
A professor of molecular biophysics, her deep understanding of science has led her to confront the existential crisis facing humans. Acting on her love for her children and the disrupted world that is being left to them, she has channeled her horror about this crisis into action.
Dr. Bradbrook co-founded the group Rising Up!, which is now helping to organize the Extinction Rebellion, a movement composed of several thousand people across the UK that is using nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience to demand action on our…
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Exposing the Big Game 
I would be much more reassured to see people taking active steps individually, such as boycotting companies without ‘sustainable’ business plans or shoddy environmental records, reducing their reliance on fossil fuels by buying smaller cars, giving up or reducing consumption of meat and consumption in general, and not having children or having less children. Losing money will make a company change its tune rather quickly I would think.
Anyone can put blame on the government – but voting is the remedy for it.