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The unpopularity of spectacular operations, their purely formal media coverage and the growing repression in certain countries are pushing environmental movements in France to reconsider their modes of action.
Blockades of roads, airports, interruptions of sports competitions, plays, shareholder meetings. The civil disobedience movement Letzte Generation Austria (“Last Generation”) has used all means to warn about the climate catastrophe and the collapse of biodiversity. However, almost three years after its creation, its members have just thrown in the towel. In August, they announced the end of their activities. Bitter, they acknowledged a failure: the actions remained largely misunderstood by the general public.
“Despite the unleashing of violence against us, the attempts at criminalization and the prison sentences, we continued to demonstrate, justifies Marina Hagen-Canaval, member of the collective. But we have to face reality: we no longer see any prospect of success.” In its farewell written in the form of a press release, Letzte Generation castigates an Austrian government (ÖVP, right) that shines “by his incompetence” and even a part of the population, accused of deliberately choosing to remain in a society fed on fossil fuels. In essence, according to the activists:
