ClimateAdam 
As climate change intensifies, we’re seeing more and more climate activists taking to our streets – whether that’s from Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for Future, the Sunrise Movement, or many more. The question is, does blocking traffic, throwing soup, and gluing oneself to buildings make any difference? And how activists like these fit in with other climate movements – like boycotting banks, marching, and building community? And will it really take disaster for activism to finally turn the tide on climate change?
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==MORE INFO==
~More from Dana~
Dana on Bsky https://bsky.app/profile/fisherdanar.bsky.social
Her comment piece on the topic: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03721-z
Ted talk: go.ted.com/danarfisher
Recent opinion piece https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5066177-climate-activists-civil-rights-radicalism/
~Other~
Review of research on activism: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352154625000178?via=ihub
Actual response to protests:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03431-0
Hypothetical study: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023120925949
Far right response to disasters:
https://www.ft.com/content/55991101-9501-4c20-bf2a-5404bcb67e35
Over 400 academics (climate related fields) sign open letter
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfViJrZmKLdw0oXbnOJgF69eWHZjMKv-bnPKZpl1Df9ayJdwQ/viewform?gxids=7628
150 unprecedented disasters in 2024 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/19/unprecedented-climate-disasters-extreme-weather-un-report
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BlackLivesMatter footage from NewsClickin
Palestine footage from News 360 Tv
Climate strike footage from 350.org
Activist clips from News 360 Tv
Wildfire footage from Kanal13
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About The Author
Absolutely not.
Catastrophic anthropogenic global warming is the most massive scientific fraud in human history.
funny Donald Trump moment, yeah, he is a really bad president for lots of reasons, and this is one of them, he prevents progress, and lies.
As any Madison Avenue marketing executive can tell you: "there's no such thing as bad press". From what the research says, apparently they're right.
yes adan, i want to, i have got 3 PHD from Oxford
I'm going to be showing my students this video. Thank you!
Net zero canāt happen without billions dying of starvation. Weāre too reliant on oil to simply feed ourselves. Also the net zero plans predict carbon capture, a fanciful concept, will be significant in order to manipulate the stats and make it seem achievable.
The changes required would take many decades to implement, we only have years. Buckle up people, the crash is going to be brutal.
If I run this video pointed at a phone running one of Sabine's videos, can I create photons or will it just start a fire?
Don't forget to mention the systematic political targeting (jailing and abductions) of climate and pro-Palestine protestors.
The only problem with waiting for a disaster to happen is that it will be too late to stop a lot of the warming…
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The biggest criticism of climate activists .
They don't live with low emissions.
Using private jets and have more than one car
The big mistake that has been made is pretending. That the indutries causing climate change actually cared or didnt know. what they are doing. Then allowing them to control the narative.
Keep it up!
Really interesting topic on a really important issueā¦but this man is insufferable.
Does he really need to mention his degree from Oxford? It doesnāt make him better than anyone else, especially in the era of Mickey Mouse degrees š
I am a climate activist. But I advocate for endless clean energy from high temperature geothermal, as described by Nasa/Sandia Labs' Magma Energy Project in 1982. Because sustaining capitalist civilisation with abundant clean energy is a rational proposition, I feel no need to hurl myself into traffic, or consume objet d'arts to make my point.
I have not been arrested for my activism. Nor have I been acknowledged. Magma Energy is not on the agenda yet, but I continue to make the argument for agreement to build a Magma Energy platform sufficient to global energy demand by 2050.
Had this argument been made from the 1980's onwards, the climate and ecological threat would not be conceived of as an impasse between two false narratives – on the left, Limits to Growth environmentalism, and on the right, climate change denial.
Protesting for a prosperous AND sustainable future – environmentalism could have had mainstream appeal. For it is ultimately in the interests of governments and the energy industry, banks and insurance companies – to take the next logical step in a long series of energy revolutions, and develop Magma Energy, as opposed to losing everything when climate impacts force the insurance industry to fold on real estate, and banking collapses.
Just Go Magma!
There's nothing wrong with protesting/demonstrating for climate change. Though for it to be truly effective it needs to be peaceful, and wonton acts of vandalism is not `peaceful.` It's that kind of stuff that turns people off. Sure, the argument there is no such thing as bad publicity has merit, but at some point you have to look at the results. What have we actually accomplished in mitigating or reversing the effects of climate change? What are the actual viable solutions? Will these protests get enough countries contributing to climate change, to make meaningful changes? Doing something to change the world for the better is a noble thing to do, but doing something that has no chance of actually affecting meaningful change, is empty.
Every successful movement was violent. (or was an alternative to violence, like with Gandhi and India communists)
Plant a tree garden dont let big ag control you a apple shouldn't be $2 or $3 each a banana shouldn't be $1 each or for every 3.
Grow your own do it organically and im sure co2 will be reduced from less big ag and more small gardens feeding people
Very interested in how they collected data saying the more extreme actions were approved by people despite the bad vibes
I changed degrees to become a better climate activist. Iām doing my part!
Great video. Next do a book review on Dr. Andreas Malms how to blow up a Pipeline… it's all about this topic.
Another great video. Thanks Adam.
I'm gonna do more than activism
If we go to net zero we'll miss out on all the benefits of CO2. According to NOAA, an area equal to double the size of the continental United States has changed from brown to green since the 1970s. This amazing greening of the Earth is due primarily to the increase in CO2, and arid regions have benefitted most because increased CO2 also make plants more drought tolerant.
We're often told that today's atmospheric CO2 concentration of 420 PPM is the highest it's been in the last million years. What we don't hear much about is that level is still relatively low on the geologic time scale. Plants grow best when CO2 is 1,200 to 1,500 PPM, because that's the environment they evolved in over hundreds of millions of years.
At the height of the last glacial maximum 25,000 to 30,000 years ago the atmospheric CO2 level dropped to only 170 PPM. That's the lowest it had been since life first colonized land roughly 500 million years ago. If atmospheric CO2 falls below 150 PPM plants can no longer perform photosynthesis and die. Such low CO2 levels must have been a significant factor in the extinction of the megafauna, as plants would have struggled to grow fast enough to support so many large herbivores.
CO2 gets a really bad wrap, but if you really study the science you soon realize this idea of CO2 as the control knob for climate just doesn't stand up to scrutiny. If there truly are any adverse effects of increased CO2, the benefits far outweigh them. If you actually want to help the planet and nature, you should become a CO2 advocate.
Throw soup, save lives
š Whole food plant based for the environment and health; vegan for the victims!
Ask your city government to sign the Plant Based Treaty! š
How do you feed 9 billion people without fossil fuels? That's my question.
Not saying what side I'm on, but whenever I see clips of climate activists, I always have a little check to see if any of them are my mates
It's time to build an open source, decentralized, privacy protecting, and fact checking global platform for digital democracy so we can vote for principles and policies instead of personalities and political parties.
Thanks, but the elephant in the room is that solving the crisis requires dramatic lifestyle changes and nobody is ready for this or even talks about it.
Every time there are more extreme demonstrations we talk about them. Every time we are divided if it is a good or a bad way to make an impact. Every time we agree on the underlying problem and that things need to be done.
I got arrested for the only time in my life at one of the XR protests. Seemed worth a try but Iām sceptical the protests made much difference since. Iām thinking of retraining as an electrician to work with renewables now to help in a more practical way instead.
Thank you for this video Adam ! If you want to do a video about A22 network and/or with activists from this movement, please contact me š