Mick Clifford Podcast: A Hard Rain’s already falling

The environmental group Extinction Rebellion has lost faith in the willingness of government and or the capacity of conventional governments to tackle climate change.

On October 7 the Irish chapter of the group intends to bring the centre of Dublin to a standstill for a week as part of a campaign of civil disobedience in capital cities across the world.

The group is demanding immediate action to eliminate carbon emissions and, as they see it, tell the public the truth about a planet in the grip of devastating climate change.

Paul McCormack Cooney, a member of Extinction Rebellion, spoke to the podcast about the group’s philosophy, tactics, attitude to democracy and why he, a middle aged father of two, got involved in a rebellion.