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‘All Hands On Deck’ Extinction Rebellion With Gail Bradbrook and Clare Farrell

On leveraging love and grief to build the Extinction Rebellion, a movement that demands immediate action on climate change

Douglas Rushkoff
Team Human
Published in
2 min readApr 10, 2019

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Photo: Luke Robert Mason

Playing for Team Human today are two guests practicing state-of-the-art activism that acknowledges and leverages these various emotional components. Douglas is joined by molecular biophysics PhD and economic justice campaigner Gail Bradbrook and #bodypolitic fashion designer turned hunger strike activist, Clare Farrell.

Gail Bradbrook and Clare Farrell leverage love and grief to build the Extinction Rebellion, a movement that demands immediate action on climate change.

“There is an emotional component to waking up to our social, political, economic, and climate predicaments, and a mix of anger, shock, exhilaration, and fear. Yet properly integrated, they can all serve us as we attempt to muster the collective fortitude to confront these interconnected challenges.”

They’ve begun a movement centered in London but spreading around the world, called Extinction Rebellion. They shut down bridges in London last year and are planning to shut down the whole city of London next week (April 15) until…

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Douglas Rushkoff
Team Human

Author of Survival of the Richest, Team Human, Program or Be Programmed, and host of the Team Human podcast http://teamhuman.fm