Damien Gayle, the Guardian’s environment correspondent, visits Extinction Rebellion’s the Big One protest in London to find out if the group’s new non-disruptive tactics will work in recruiting supporters.
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He then heads to the south of France, where climate protest group Les Soulèvement de la Terre is staging a demonstration against a new motorway project, to find out why French people are simply better at protesting than the English.
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Chapters:
Intro – 00:00
Extinction Rebellion – 00:44
French Protesters – 03:32
Global Climate Protests – 07:56
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