The problem with astroturfed groups like Extinction Rebellion is that if their sponsors, for whatever reason, pull the funding then how does one carry on?
Extinction Rebellion NZ seems to have some issues.
Technically the site is still there but if you are crazy enough to go to extinctionrebellion.nz all you’ll get is a file downloaded to your computer with some advice from Wordpress on how to set up your blog site (just a word of advice, don’t use Wordpress for that).
The international rebels are still claiming it (with 24 local groups all down as well)
If one goes to Twitter the account is still tweeting;
But with that Octupus emoji there I figure that’s Dr Sea Rotman who has moved to Golden Bay and 20 35 hectares with her partner. Is that rebellion though?
One wonders if this is a sign of things to come with the International version of Extinction Rebellion, after all their accounts don’t look too hot now that the Getty Family and Radiohead have withdrawn their support (I’ve removed the middle columns because they were just confusing being Quarter 1 and Quarter 2 2021)
Simon Oosterman, professional, and sometimes naked, protestor and the owner of extinctionrebellion.nz seems to have lost interest as well and has moved on to a more focused website (yes that’s sarcasm), this one;
You might have to sell your 20 35 hectares Dr Sea.
Has Extinction Rebellion NZ
Extinction Rebellion's (NZ) website is back up. I guess that Sea must have sold the 35 hectares.
A while back I was working on a design for a house being built on some low land near the ocean. The water table is about 6" below the surface. I thought it best to inquire about sea level rise to the jourisdiction in Washington State, to see if they wanted the house to have any accomodation for what has been predicted to be ever increasing flooding. The building department first laughed at me, and then was annoyed by me, for even asking. The engineer they referred me to also pretty much laughed at me for bringing it up. I literally asked another architect, Are we wrong here? Is the climate change really not an issue? Like myself, the architect was fully believing we should start to accomodate the water rising. The whole thing was a joke, it seems, and we (the designers and architects) have got played. (By the way, the house just has a 12" foundation like every other house on the spit, no one is worried about it and no one will build floatable homes or higher foundations in this area of WA.) At least I understand why the engineer just snickered at me now. Folks know its a joke.