Spiked, October 7, 2019, https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/10/07/the-madness-of-extinction-rebellion.

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Greta Thunberg, “ ‘Our House Is on Fire’: Greta Thunberg, 16, Urges Leaders to Act on Climate,” The Guardian, January 25, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com.

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Greta Thunberg, “If standing up against the climate and ecological break down and for humanity is against the rules then the rules must be broken. #ExtinctionRebellion,” Twitter, October 15, 2019, 12:24 p.m., https://twitter.com/gretathunberg/status/1184188303295336448.

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Sarah Lunnon, interviewed by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, This Morning, ITV, October 17, 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACLmQsPocNs.

1217

Myles Allen and Sarah Lunnon, interviewed by Emma Barrett, Newsnight, BBC, October 10, 2019.

1218

Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, 96.

1219

Roger Scruton, Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left (London: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019), 15.

1220

Roger Scruton, Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left (London: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019), 15.

1221

Savannah Lovelock and Sarah Lunnon, interviewed by Sophy Ridge, Sophy Ridge on Sunday, Sky News, October 6, 2019, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArO_-xH5Vm8.

1222

Savannah Lovelock and Sarah Lunnon, interviewed by Sophy Ridge, Sophy Ridge on Sunday, Sky News, October 6, 2019, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArO_-xH5Vm8.

1223

Lauren Jeffrey (British YouTuber) in discussion with the author, December 3, 2019.

1224

Greta Thunberg, “School Strike for Climate – Save the World by Changing the Rules,” TEDxStockholm, January 27, 2019, https://www.ted.com. Malena Ernman, “Malena Ernman on daughter Greta Thunberg: ‘She was slowly disappearing into some kind of darkness,’ ” The Guardian, February 23, 2020.

1225

Scruton, Fools, Frauds and Firebrands, 288.

1226

Scruton, Fools, Frauds and Firebrands, 288.

1227

Sir Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning (London, Paris, and Melbourne: Cassell & Sons, Ltd., 1893), https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5500/5500-h/5500-h.htm.

1228

Jean Delumeau, Sin and Fear: The Emergence of a Western Guilt Culture, 13th–18th Centuries, translated by Eric Nicholson (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990).

1229

Brian L. Burke, “Two Decades of Terror Management Theory: A Metaanalysis of Mortality Salience Research,” Personality and Social Psychology Review 14, no. 2 (2010): 155–195, https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868309352321.

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“World’s Fairs, 1933–1939,” Encyclopedia.com, December 9, 2019, https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-and-education-magazines/worlds-fairs-1933–1939.

1231

In truth, gorillas can walk upright but most of the time walk on their hands as well as their feet. But the impression of the gorilla standing upright has been a potent one, in part because it is what humans see when gorillas charge. George Schaller, The Year of the Gorilla (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1988), 4.

1232

I am not the first person to make this point. “Our living standards are largely – or completely – unaffected by the presence or absence of spotted owls,” wrote Amartya Sen, “but I strongly believe that we should not let them become extinct, for reasons that have nothing much to do with human living standards.” Quoted in Mark Sagoff, The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law, and the Environment (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 2.

1233

Christine Figgener (sea turtle biologist) in conversation with the author, November 6, 2019. Zion Lights (Extinction Rebellion spokesperson) in discussion with the author, December 5, 2019.

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David Wallace-Wells, “We’re Getting a Clearer Picture of the Climate Future – and It’s Not as Bad as It Once Looked,” New York, December 20, 2019, http://nymag.com.

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Roger Pielke, Jr., “In 2020 Climate Science Needs to Hit the Reset Button, Part One,” Forbes, December 22, 2019, https://www.forbes.com