<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“I think it’s crazy that we have to do this in order to get politicians to act on the greatest crisis we face but manifestly we do,” said <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/mckibben-bill" class="m_-18802009337507531u-underline" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/mckibben-bill&source=gmail&ust=1555347144756000&usg=AFQjCNEiuwKu__o60qCfTCz4WC94_jW2Rw" style="color: rgb(171, 6, 19); background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); text-decoration: none !important;">Bill McKibben</a>, the co-founder of climate group <a href="http://350.org/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://350.org&source=gmail&ust=1555347144756000&usg=AFQjCNFXHztHHYLnXjiq_z9spAvcckcORw" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">350.org</a> and a Guardian contributor who estimates he has been put in handcuffs “seven or eight times”.</p><p style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“Nonviolent direct action is never an end in itself, but carefully used it underlines the moral urgency of the moment. I think it mostly needs to become bigger, everywhere. And dramatic action – conducted with care, so that people aren’t turned off – has a serious role to play in that.”</p><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/apr/13/extinction-rebellion-heads-to-america-climate-change-protest" class=""><font color="#1155cc" class="">https://www.theguardian.com/</font><font color="#1155cc" class=""><wbr class="">science/2019/apr/13/<wbr class="">extinction-rebellion-heads-to-<wbr class="">america-climate-change-protest</font></a></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class="">"Ignorance of remote causes disposeth men to attribute all events to the causes immediate and instrumental: for these are all the causes they perceive."<br class=""><br class="">Thomas Hobbes<br class=""><br class="">Chapter XI. Of the Difference of Manners. Hobbes, Thomas. 1909-14 ...<br class=""><a href="https://www.bartleby.com/34/5/11.html" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bartleby.com/34/5/11.html&source=gmail&ust=1555347144756000&usg=AFQjCNHKcHijg6h_snINJWiR1xxBxAzajg" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://www.bartleby.com/34/5/<wbr class="">11.html</a></div>
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