Fridays for Future Breaking Social Systems with Non-violent Civil Disobedience

Everyone needs to gain a deeper understanding of how serious our planetary multilevel collapses are. Not only climate and ecological collapse but also societal behaviour which accelerates collapse. Examples are media silence, political systems focused on short-term voter cycles, political lobbying, wealth extremes which virtually remove democratic relevance and many business processes and tax subsidies which continue to assume the more fossil fuels the better. All of this seems to ride on a belief in the ‘fantasies of unlimited growth on a limited planet’ (Greta Thunberg 2019). Activism and non violent civil disobedience methods from history which democracy is founded upon give useful guidance.