#62 The Great Climate Solution: Are You a Chosen One?

Nonviolent Peaceful Protest is Our Secret Weapon

Does Climate Protest Work? Partisanship, Protest, and Sentiment Pools - Dylan Bugden, 2020This study demonstrates whether and how climate protest increases or decreases the “sentiment pools” available to the climate movement. Using an experimental vi...

What Can the Police Arrest You for at a Protest?

Why Civil Resistance Works | Columbia University PressFor more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving t... | CUP

What Makes a Successful Protest?Throughout 2020, pandemic lockdowns have been punctuated by mass movements calling for political change. What characteristics allow such protests to make an impact?

Peaceful Protest Examples & Pros and Cons| What is a Peaceful Protest? - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.comRead about peaceful protest, also called nonviolent resistance. Learn what a peaceful protest is with examples, and view the pros and cons of...

Global Nonviolent Action Database: Home

The Global Nonviolent Action Database provides free access to information about hundreds of cases of nonviolent action, from all continents and most countries, for learning and for inspiring citizen action.

Civil Disobedience

Drivers threaten Insulate Britain activists in Essex protestsTense scenes as lorry drivers use vehicles to try to break through demonstrators’ blockades

Beyond Extinction Rebellion: the protest groups fighting on the climate frontlineWith the survival of our species at stake, meet six activist groups who refuse to go quietly

Historic Photograph of a Lunch Counter Demonstration in the '60s

During this sit-in at a segregated lunch counter, black and white students joined together in peaceful protest of racist policies.

A mob of young white people doused them with sugar, mustard, ketchup and had pepper thrown in their eyes.

Later they were attacked with brass knuckles, broken glass, and burned by lit cigarettes.

All the while the air was filled with obscenities, the n-word — it was a lavish display of unbridled hatred.

Would you sit there and take this abuse – or would you fight back.

What these students did, is the essence of nonviolent, peaceful protest.

The 3.5% Climate Solution

Take a trip back to 1970 when Earth Day was first heldEvery year people across the world celebrate Earth Day on 22 April, a movement that started in the US nearly 50 years ago in the spring of 1970 - discover more about that momentous day.

The Climate Movement. Have we reached Critical Mass?If there’s one thing we can learn from previous revolutions, there's a specific tipping point at which a movement reaches critical mass… welcome to the 3.5% rule.

Why nonviolent resistance beats violent force in effecting social, political changeHarvard Professor Erica Chenoweth discovers nonviolent civil resistance is far more successful in effecting change than violent campaigns.

Can 3.5 Percent Save the Planet?Environmental movements have shifted public awareness about climate change. How many more people will need to join them for their demands to be met?

Harnessing the ‘3.5 percent rule’ for May 2022Ninoy Aquino’s assassination nearly four decades ago unleashed such outrage that our people in the end found both the courage and the imagination to topple a long-entrenched dictatorship.

Analysis: Which countries are historically responsible for climate change? - Carbon Brief

Which countries have contributed the most CO2 to the atmosphere since the beginning of the industrial revolution?

A stunning animation of cumulative greenhouse gas emissions over time.

News of the Future: Are nations of the world going to be able to work together to solve global warming?

Top climate scientists are sceptical that nations will rein in global warmingA Nature survey reveals that many authors of the latest IPCC climate-science report are anxious about the future and expect to see catastrophic changes in their lifetimes.

Patterns of Environmental Collective Action: Some Cross‐National FindingsMany environmental problems such as global warming, biodiversity loss and waste accumulation can be described as large-scale collective action dilemmas. Previous research on collective action in Comm...

How the United States can return to credible climate leadershipPresident Joe Biden wants to re-establish U.S. leadership on climate. Doing so will require the United States to make an ambitious but achievable pledge and to assist other nations in doing the same.

Climate change achievements by country 2022 | StatistaBased on the 2022 Climate Change Performance Index, Denmark was ranked as the country with the highest achievement in climate protection, followed by Sweden.

5 possible climate futures—from the optimistic to the strangeThe five scenarios that form the backbone of the latest IPCC report tell radically different stories about humanity’s future.

Climate Change and Collective Action: The Problem of Knowledge Resistance | The New York Academy of SciencesClimate change is creating extreme conditions that are putting tremendous strain on state and local resources. Scientists have been sounding the alarm about the human impact upon climate change for well over a century, so how can we overcome the challenge of “knowledge resistance”?

COP26: Global governance vs. individual action. Who is responsible for climate change? - Intergenerational FoundationIntergenerational Foundation is an independent charity promoting intergenerational fairness, working for the interests of younger and future generations.

No time to lose – collective action for our common future: Make Change Happen podcast episode 9In the New Year edition of Make Change Happen, we look ahead to 2021 as a super year driven by global action to tackle environment and development challenges

Poll: Just 15% of Americans trust China to help fight climate changeWhen it comes to fighting climate change, few Americans surveyed say they trust China, the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases, to do its part.

Russia vetoes UN security council resolution linking climate crisis to international peaceThe resolution proposed that the climate crisis could potentially threaten ‘global peace, security and stability’

How would $100bn help the world cope with climate change?The nations that have added the most CO2 to the atmosphere are not the ones where its impacts are most felt.