Extinction Rebellion are a decentralised movement & we stand by our core principles and values. As such we reflect & learn & we believe that many in our movement are shutting out expertise, becoming closed to debate & unthinkingly adopting positions without understanding them.
We believe that Extinction Rebellion's mainstream opposition to HS2 is misguided, shortsighted, not based on evidence & betrays a lack of understanding of the issues. It also puts XR on the same side of the debate as the IEA, the TPA and their oil company funders.
This in itself should give us pause to think & reassess but for many it hasn't. Many XR members remain committed to opposing a project that will increase rail capacity, enabling more frequent, reliable local low carbon rail services across the UK, new routes & stations...
Thereby offering greener transport options for millions of people, taking hundreds of thousands of polluting cars & lorries off the roads, freeing up space in our cities for more trees & parks where car parking would otherwise have been...
Cleaning our urban air and improving the health of millions, eliminating the need for domestic flights in the UK and therefore putting an end to plans to expand Heathrow. HS2 does all this and yet many in our movement have been misled by misinformation and lies disseminated...
by vested interests in the road building & oil industries, 'free market libertarians' & celebrities only out to promote themselves. It is our mission to counter these lies & show that to call yourself an environmentalist means backing HS2. We are XR4HS2.
You can follow @XR4HS2.
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