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PENNY LANE
I’m Penny, and I’m a part of Extinction Rebellion Lincolnshire. I became very concerned about the messages that were coming out of reports and newspapers about the state of the environment, telling us quite clearly that we have five years to make a difference. It’s that urgent. They’re calling it code red. Most governments, including ours, are leisurely strolling along, saying 2050 is their target. Well, that’s 30 years too late. We’re all at risk. We’ve got island states that are disappearing. We’ve got cities sinking. We’ve got thousands of people displaced. We’ve got wars already that are about resources. Civilisation is deeply threatened by the way things are happening. Extinction Rebellion has taken its lessons from suffragettes, Martin Luther King, the Indian rebellions with Gandhi and so on. And it’s clear that if you do peaceful civil disobedience, you actually are quite powerful.
SPEAKER
Extinction Rebellion is an environmental movement. There’s three main principles and demands. The first is to act now. The second is to tell the truth. And the third is to be beyond politics and move forward to how do we create true democracies.
PENNY LANE
If I was going to rebellion, I would have planned what I was going to do. I would have a group of people I was going to know well, I’m going to do it with. We will use messaging apps. We know where we’re going to meet. We’ve got anything that we need planned, how we're going to get it there. It works like clockwork because we’ve rehearsed it. There are things that we could do. There are things we could do to adjust. And that’s what motivates us. And that’s what gives us the strength to be arrested again and again and to do the difficult things that we do. It’s not easy being locked on. It’s not easy being glued to things. It’s pretty scary. But the thing is that I think it would be criminal not to do it. If there was a chance that I could make a difference, then I’m going to take it.