– Climate, don’t stand still Ballens
The activists finally left the Vaud forest they were occupying to denounce a large gravel pit project. But the message remains.
Published today at 8:25 a.m.
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How should we take the news? Or rather how should we take the news? In total silence, the Lausanne section ofExtinction Rebellion (XR) died this week. It no longer has enough members to keep it alive. There are reasons fundamentally linked to the youth of any movement. The shock actions have ended up tiring. Internal dissensions about the line to take, about extending the areas of the struggle to other causes have nipped the momentum in the bud, like other nascent citizen collectives.
Stuck in daily traffic jams, some are already rubbing their hands. Since others will no longer stick them on the asphalt. They will have time from the front seat of their vehicle, stuck in traffic and honking into space at regular intervals, to deliberately confuse warming with disturbance. By making fun of the rain and low temperatures that punctuated the month of June in a Facebook post. While refusing to admit, despite scientific evidence, that the multiplication of these extraordinary meteorological events has any link with climate change. Or by showing screenshots of old newspapers to remind us that in the summer of 1947, there were already heat waves.
I confess to a certain sympathy for this forty activists who went climbing trees in the Ballens forest. Before going to hang themselves elsewhere so as not to be dislodged by the police. This served as a reminder, including to local residents, of what a gravel pit project like this one by 2030: a potential of 18.5 million cubic meters to be dug for which it would be necessary to raze dozens of hectares of forest.
We shout about the latest floods in Morges while noting that the earth is no longer playing its role as a sponge. Our planet is indeed an area to be defended. In the absence of awareness on the part of each person and the individual responsibility that goes with it, some people will have to remind us of this reality from time to time. Like all good whistleblowers who respect themselves.
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