{"id":84090,"date":"2021-02-20T17:02:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T11:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=84090"},"modified":"2021-03-01T13:18:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T07:48:32","slug":"what-is-extinction-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-extinction-rebellion\/","title":{"rendered":"What is &#8220;Extinction Rebellion&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Delhi Police have named environmental activists Disha Ravi, Nikita Jacob, and Shantanu Muluk, in its report. These activists were volunteers of the &#8220;Extinction Rebellion&#8221; movement. It seeks to call attention to the climate change emergency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Extinction Rebellion<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was launched in the United Kingdom in 2018 as a response to a report by the United Nations <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change-ipcc\/\"><strong>Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose: <\/strong>The movement describes itself as a decentralized, international, and politically non-partisan movement. It uses non-violent direct action and civil disobedience to persuade governments to act on the Climate and Ecological Emergency.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Logo: <\/strong>The logo of the movement is an \u2018X\u2019 with the top and bottom cross. It resembles an hourglass which stands for a warning that time is running out for many species. The extinction(X) hourglass is placed within a circle that represents the planet Earth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Core Demands:<\/strong> The group has three core demands: The Government should \u201cTell the Truth\u201d, \u201cAct Now\u201d and \u201cGo Beyond Politics\u201d. By that, it confronts the climate and ecological emergency that the world is facing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-what-is-extinction-rebellion-global-movement-of-which-young-activists-accused-in-toolkit-case-are-part-7192633\/\"><strong>Indian Express<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Delhi Police have named environmental activists Disha Ravi, Nikita Jacob, and Shantanu Muluk, in its report. These activists were volunteers of the &#8220;Extinction Rebellion&#8221; movement. It seeks to call attention to the climate change emergency. Extinction Rebellion It was launched in the United Kingdom in 2018 as a response to a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-extinction-rebellion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is &#8220;Extinction Rebellion&#8221;?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,4182,9],"tags":[1304],"class_list":["post-84090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-environment","category-public","tag-env_4","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700437083},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}