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• Don’t Look Up – did you see this film over the break? 🎥
• Moments from XR Derby in 2021
Don’t Look Up
New film, available on Netflix, and watched by many of us over the break.
Loved by climate scientists (who feel, at last, represented). Criticised by film critics (with no sense of the irony of inadvertently writing themselves into the script 🤣).
Highly recommended to watch and share.
“The movie Don’t Look Up is satire. But speaking as a climate scientist doing everything I can to wake people up and avoid planetary destruction, it’s also the most accurate film about society’s terrifying non-response to climate breakdown I’ve seen.” Peter Kalmus
Some moments from XR Derby in 2021
February – XR Derby makers and climbers repair the Save Middle Oak banner
April – XR Derby supporting the Right to Roam Campaign at Kedleston Hall
May – XR Derby helped organise the Marches for Wildlife in Chesterfield, Leicester, Derby, Lincoln and Nottingham
June – Court Cases
June – digital messaging
At the Royal Courts of Justice – supporting Transport Action Network
June – XR Derby at the Free the Press march
July – COVID safe, we keep up outreach
September – supporting Save the Badgers – Stop the Cull
August – XR Derby at the London “Impossible” Rebellion
September – at the Transition Belper Eco Market
September – Many XR Derby Rebels supported Insulate Britain with incredibly impactful (and controversial) protests – with the M25 declared a site of non-violent civil resistance
October with the Derby COP26 Alliance.
November – joining Derby Climate Coalition and other groups at the COP26 coalition march.
Black Friday, November – joining a nationwide blockade of Amazon distribution centres as storm Arwen crashed into the UK.
December – one of many Kill the Bill protests
