“Bounded Boars” robbing golf courses, “tire deflators” attacking SUVs, “Jacuzzi Boars” emptying private swimming pools. And soon “RinoFéroces”, which calls for a “big action”, on November 5 in Toulouse. “Save the Tree, Eat the Rich,” their poster proclaims, heralding the “Inevitable November Uprising (Rhino)” Extinction Rebellion movement. When it comes to civil disobedience, environmental activists’ imaginations are matched only by their resentment against the wealthy. Haron on business jets, second homes or swimming pools. After a summer marked by wildfires, drought and heat waves, outward signs of wealth are at the crossroads. “Rich = Thief,” “Shut up bourgeois, we’ll be back for the bonfire,” the Boars noted on the golf green. For the sake of environmental protection, and first of all class struggle.
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Source: Le Figaro
