Indignant rebels It is a collective Ecosocial-Antiespecista (or Eco-Animal-Social)created from Ex-intentors of the Climate-Ecosocial Collective Scientific Rebellion (RC) Spain, following the controversy in said collective on livestock in July 2024.
Indignant rebels it’s a meta-moving that fights the denialism, fragmentation and authoritarianism inside and outside their own Ecosocial movements that silence the main answers to the greatest crisis in history.
More than twenty Spanish and international organizations have signed a open letter promoted by Indignant rebelsin which they ask the big entities Ecologists And to the rest of Ecosocial movements And for the climate, to people from the scientific field and of the disclosureto the media And to the rest of socio -political actors Leave silence the main ones responses to the climate and ecological crisis: the Transition towards plants -based diets and the deep decrease.
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Open letter to the great environmental NGOs and the media
“Humanity” and total living on earth, is before The greatest crisis and crossroads in historythe climatic and ecological, that raises a possible ecosocial collapse and a threat of extinction in this century In the case a scenario of extinction to which the total number of governments of the world, those included, look the other waycon measured in the best of cosmetic cases and in the worst case fanatically contrary to everything that could reduce the already inevitable climate catastrophe that comes: Increased food products of animal origin, fossil fuels, extractivism and extreme overconsumethat is, everything that leads us to imminent abyss.
In the words of Antonio Guterres, Secretary of the United Nations, We have “the foot in the accelerator on the highway to climate hell” and extinction.
Given this situation, we have, on the one hand a rise from pure and hard climate denialismand on the other some Ecologist, climatic and ecosocial groups that silence the problems and primary measureswhat we can call a “Ecological denialism” what is even more dangerous because it prevents society from knowing the problem and solutions, and co -opts the space of a true revolution and change.
Silence that primary measures To respond to the crisis they are, firstthe transition to plants -based diets and secondthe deep decrease of all consumption, extractivism, production, transport, urbanization and land occupation.
The transition to plants -based diets goes ahead of the energy transition and circular economy
This is recognized by a hundred institutional reports and this was recently recognized by one of the most respected climatic scientists in the worldJohan Rockström who said high and clear in an interview, which The transition to plants -based diets is the most urgent measure and goes ahead of the energy transition and circular economy.
The own IPCC recognizes the maximum importance of both issues, Change of diets and decreaseas main measures before the Climate changeas seen in the initial version filtered of the summary of the 2021 report, which was finally censored by the influence of food lobbies and fossil fuels. (See point C4.4 on page 20 on diet and points C4.2, 4.3 and 4.5 on page 20 on decrease, where it emphasizes that Demand -centered options, that is, diet change and consumption reduction, could reduce emissions between 50 and 80%, being the most powerful measures.)
Animal Exploitation Food Industry
This is because, as a hundred reports of the highest level claim, The animal exploitation food industry is the first cause of planetary boundaries, Climate change, mass extinctions, destruction of forests and oceans that regulate the terrestrial climate and are the main solution to climate change, as well as Global pollution, water exhaustion, health problems and human inequality, food insecurity and extreme abuse of animals.
This industry consumes 80% of world agriculture, more than a third of the habitable surface, and is the main source of deforestation, as well as the devastation more than 55% of the oceans, of which only 0.5 to 3% is protected and even in the protected areas of the EU itself, with very few exceptions, the most destructive human activity is allowed: drag fishing.
According to the Ministry of Consumer, the meat has 4 times more impacts than commercial aviation and the transition of diets would be between 4 and 40 times more effective than energy efficiency and circular economy.
The type of livestock with more impacts on Climate change and biodiversity is The extensive, as clearly appears in the scientific literature of consensus, but which is not systematically defended by the bulk of environmental movementsthat act at the service of livestock lobby and his scientific misinformation.
The animal exploitation food industry is the main force behind 5 of the 6 Planetary limits that we currently exceed (of a total of 9): CC, biodiversity, use of land, water, nitrogen and phosphorus; the sixth, innovative entities, is linked to hundreds of thousands of chemical substances, most of them only indirectly linked to fossil fuels, except plastic, which points to the need to decrease far from fuels fuels.
Vegan diet
The aberrant animal slavery thus has the purpose of supporting a food system Biocide, echocid and genocidalit is also the main source of health problems and human inequality.
Lnearly one hundred reports mentioned agree that the vegan diet would be the most beneficialboth for the ecological and climatic crisis, and for human health, and, obviously, for exploited and exterminated non -human animals.
He IPCC He considers that the vegan diet has three times more impact than the Mediterranean to reduce GHG emissions and to stop the climatic crisis.
In relation to the “Climate change“Ecologist movements Machaconally ask for a”End of the fossil fuels“, but Nothing is said of what would be necessary to end them.
It is unfeasible to do it with the Energy transitiondue to its well -known limitations (much of the industry and transport of today it cannot work with it) to its unsustainability of production and recycling (depending on rare and fossil fuels), to its serious environmental impact, to its slowness and its very high cost, being a very partial measure and first of all a new business and a Greenwashing strategy.
The only effective way to end fossil fuels It is the aforementioned deep decrease In all sectors of consumption, production, extractivism and waste: urbanization and housing, transport and manufacturing (household goods, clothing, appliances, and new technologies).
Saying deep decrease It cannot consist of a couple of cosmetic patcheshow to have an electric car and renewable energy at home, You have to go associated with a deep systemic change in dominant life forms and industrializedthat we have to initiate people with privileges in the global north, learning from the many indigenous communities of the Earth (whose essential role the UN recognizes more and more), towards a terrestrial decolonization.
The overpopulation taboo
In relation to this, it is not acceptable that he continues to be eluded The overpopulation taboothat we have to put on the table from radically democratic, anti-racist, anti-colonial, anti-pitist, transfminist and LGTBI-intersectional perspectives, dismantling the reproductive heteropatriarchy.
These measures can be implemented by people without waiting for the unlikely fact that the governments and companies of the current Lobbycracia act. But Individual and collective action is impossible if silence and the heart of the problem and solutions is unknown.
Just as it is unacceptable that these key issues shine for their absence in demands to governments and the complaints against companies and the milmillionaire elites.
These are and not other issues that must appear high and clear, in the epicenter of any public debate and campaign, throughout the spectrum of the ecosocial struggle according to indignant rebels.
More than 100 environmental organizations denounced what The big five have left us alone In the fight against photovoltaic and wind industrial polygons that sweep our territory, destroying the soil.
Hoy, It is urgent to denounce even more force, that these organizations justify the activities that most threaten the living future, the most harmful to the earth and all its inhabitants.
Report ‘hidden at first sight’
In it “Hidden at first sight” report on the livestock-food lobby in ecosocial movementsthe severity and complexity of this problem and its motivations are developed, which have to do so much with the fatal alliance of these movements with the “field”, which has led to the movement to defend The most toxic in industries, extensive livestockas to the fear of touching the diet taboo not to lose affiliates and subsidies, as well as human supremacism and specism, and the lack of will of accommodated activists in rich countries to question their privilegesattitudes that camp at ease in almost all sectors of ecosocial movements, in which a new deep intersectionality that crosses social, ecological and antispecist struggles is urgent, stating that they are inseparable.
Also, although Extensive farmers have copied with their speech to environmental movementit cannot be said that there is reciprocity because the field, except for rare exceptions, usually rejects any serious ecology.
Indignant rebels require the set of large and small environmental, climatic, and social organizations, as well as scientific disseminators, y media what abandon this criminal denialism and silencingand stop hiding or talking to the small mouth of these issueswhich are The key measures to the greatest crisis in history, and cannot be silenced for another minute.