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Posts Tagged ‘Kingsnorth’
Climate Change, Politics, Aug 26th, 2010,
The activists at the recent Climate Camp in Scotland have stirred up controversy and debate, at least in the little corner of the media that pays attention to climate change activism. After a day of ‘climate action’ on Monday, during which several windows were broken at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) headquarters in Edinburgh, 12 Climate Camp protesters were arrested. A group of Climate Camp protesters intentionally broke the law. One of them, Dan Glass, explains their motivation in a comment piece for the Guardian entitled ‘Yes, we broke the law as climate change activists. And this is why’. Glass…
Tags: action, activism, change, climate, climate camp, Edinburgh, Kingsnorth, law, protest, RBS, Scotland
Green living, Politics, Jun 25th, 2010,
UNCIVILISATION – aka the Dark Mountain Festival – took place over the last weekend in May at Llangollen, a small town in northwest Wales on the edge of the Berwyn Mountains. I’ve written a couple of times about the polemical Dark Mountain Project, a post-environmentalist movement that has given up on mainstream environmentalism, activism and politics – but not life, as I’ve been assured by DM founder Paul Kingsnorth – in favor of establishing a new movement and new way of life in the ‘age of decline’, which does not depend on current established economical/political/cultural models. I did not attend…
Tags: Dark Mountain, environmental, environmentalism, festival, George, Kingsnorth, Monbiot, movement, Paul, project, uncivilisation
Climate Change, Politics, May 3rd, 2010,
Everything’s not going to be all right. No matter what we do, things will not turn out OK. Accept it, deal with it. Life – but not life as we know it – will go on. For a while, anyway. This seems to be part of the message of the Dark Mountain Project, a new movement of intellectual and artistic post environmentalists who – I think – wish to set a new realist agenda vis-à-vis the environment, global culture and society. Their manifesto is at once refreshing, pessimistic, a bit too sure of itself and possibly pointless. Then again I…
Tags: Dark Mountain, environmentalism, festival, Kingsnorth, manifesto, Paul, project, realism
