I feel like I need to explain the rating. It is not a rejection of the ideas in this book - I am fully on board with what XR are doing, and try and support them in whatever way I can. People are starting to pay attention, and that’s a good thing. But this is supposed to be a handbook that encourages others to take action, and that’s where I start picking holes in it. The leaders of this movement in the UK are white and middle class - it’s much easier for them to encourage getting arrested, and way more difficult for someone like me to feel like that’s something I can do. The book preaches inclusivity but is often written in dense, academic prose. The privilege of the writers is only acknowledged explicitly once. There are some great ideas in the book, and I’m glad people are starting to express them more and more, but this isn’t a book that is going to inspire the masses. It will inspire those that are already on the side of XR. I read a collection of Greta Thunberg’s speeches before picking this up, and she does a much better job at explicitly stating what the issues are in a way that’s digestible by more people. Ok, she’s not stated what the protest should look like in the same way as this book does, so you can’t really compare them too much, but this book needs to get out of the academic head space and think about how to make arguments in Plain English if they really want more people to engage. And be aware that so many people who are working class and not white might have more problems if they are arrested at a peaceful protest.