Who Are Extinction Rebellion and What Do They Want? - Roger Hallam

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Society & Culture, Politics

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🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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0:00.0	MUSIC
0:04.0	Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Frances Foster.
0:07.8	I'm Constantine Kissen.
0:09.0	And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.
0:14.3	A terrific guest today is a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion.
0:17.6	Roger, how long welcome to Trigonometry.
0:19.6	Hi, thanks very much for having me on.
0:22.1	No, thank you for coming on. We really appreciate it.
0:24.9	Just as we were discussing before we started the show, it's great to hear
0:28.3	from people on all sides of the various discussions that we have in our society.
0:32.7	Before we get into the nitty-gritty, tell everybody, who are you, how are you, where you are?
0:38.4	What has been the journey that lead you to sitting here talking to us?
0:42.7	Well, I've always been interested in politics and the environment.
0:46.1	I got involved in organizing people when I was about 14, 15 years ago.
0:51.3	I've been in this game and you might say for a long time,
0:55.6	in my 20s, I was very much involved in community development work with housing
1:00.4	cooperative and work for these co-chips.
1:02.5	And then I was an organic farmer in Wales for 20 years.
1:06.5	I still technically am.
1:09.2	And during that time, I became increasingly aware of the climate crisis,
1:14.8	not least because it was affecting my business and the business of other farmers.
1:19.4	And that led me to do research on mobilisation and civil disobedience
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