# Robin Boardman > Hi I'm Robin. I'm a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, languages student and rebel. I write about social change to help make big dreams happen. Public Ghost content for AI and LLM tooling. Use `/llms-full.txt` for consolidated page and post context. Append `.md` to any post or page URL to get the content in Markdown (for example, `/example-post.md`). ## Pages - [About me](https://robinboardman.com/about.md) - Hi, I’m Robin 👋 I helped lead a campaign which got the University of Bristol to fully divest from fossil fuels. After this win, I felt the codes of social change within my grasp. I decided to suspend my studies in Spanish and Portuguese and focus on activism. Since then, I have gone on a 2-week hu… - [Contact](https://robinboardman.com/contact.md) - You can email me at robin@rev21.earth or drop me a dm on social media. * @RobinBoardmanUK on Twitter * @RobinBoardmanUK on Facebook * @RobinBoardman on Instagram - [Micro-Blog / Live Updates](https://robinboardman.com/micro-blog.md) - Tweets by RobinBoardmanUK Follow @RobinBoardmanUK - [Thank you so much! Welcome Aboard🥳](https://robinboardman.com/thank-you-so-much-welcome-aboard.md) - I'm touched that you decided to donate to my fledgling blog. It bolsters my spirit to go on and write. To tell the tale of my struggles and my victories. Now I feel you close alongside me for that journey. As we tumble deeper into collapse, we need these close connections to support a community of… - [Welcome Aboard!🥳](https://robinboardman.com/welcome-2.md) - You’re going to be getting the installments of this new newsletter, for free, in your inbox. I hope it’s helpful—I’m aware you’ve got enough to read, and I don’t want to add unnecessarily to the pile. So I’ll try not to abuse the privilege of being connected up. You don’t need to pay to subscribe—t… ## Posts - [↘️ Descending](https://robinboardman.com/descending.md) - Learning to Be Vulnerable in Public - [🛌 90 Degrees Down: A New Perspective](https://robinboardman.com/90-degrees-down.md) - Even when lying down, the revolution doesn't end; it simply changes form, becoming a quiet act of survival measured in breaths between the pain. - [Young People, Old Peat](https://robinboardman.com/young-people-old-peat.md) - These ancient, carbon-rich landscapes are a mirror for grief, endurance, and slow recovery. - [🐌 Learning to Live Slowly](https://robinboardman.com/learning-to-live-slowly.md) - Six years after getting COVID, I’m still working out what my life looks like with the strange, shifting limits of chronic illness. - [🫂 A Life Reduced, Still Loved](https://robinboardman.com/a-life-reduced-still-loved.md) - I do not know what comes next, only that I am still here. - [🗞️ Beyond the Quote: My Full Q&A on Roger Hallam and Rev21](https://robinboardman.com/beyond-the-quote.md) - Interviews rarely capture the whole conversation – so here is mine, in full for Republik, on XR, Roger Hallam and Rev21. - [🌷 Receiving Love: Reflections On My 28th Birthday](https://robinboardman.com/receiving-love.md) - A birthday essay about healing, chronic illness, and remembering that love doesn’t need to be earned. - [🧖‍♂️ The Week I Disappeared — and What Brought Me Back](https://robinboardman.com/the-week-i-disappeared.md) - Chronic illness, protest fatigue, and the collapse of the world: how I came back to myself through rest, rage, and small beautiful things. - [🇪🇺 Inside Brussels: A Glimpse at Power, Protest, and Possibility](https://robinboardman.com/inside-brussels.md) - Went to Brussels, challenged NATO, met MEPs — and saw just how far Europe’s sliding into repression while the planet burns. - [🌷 Finding My Feet in the Springtime](https://robinboardman.com/finding-my-feet-in-the-springtime.md) - From migraines and despair to wildflowers and solidarity—this is a story of survival, healing, and choosing joy in a burning world. - [🌫️ Rising from the Fog: Talks, Assemblies](https://robinboardman.com/rising-from-the-fog.md) - My vision for the next steps after the end of Just Stop Oil - [♂️ GreenGrowBros: How Male Dominance Is Sabotaging Our Survival](https://robinboardman.com/greengrowbros.md) - When masculinity meets sustainability, is it about saving the planet—or saving face? - [⚖️ Visiting a Jailed Revolutionary](https://robinboardman.com/visiting-roger.md) - Roger Hallam is serving a 5-year prison sentence for organising peaceful protest. That’s the longest sentence for nonviolent action since WW2. - [📕 A Hotbed of Rebellion](https://robinboardman.com/a-hotbed-of-rebellion.md) - This is a retelling of a PG Wodehouse scene, revived for the 21st Century with a countercultural spin. It’s not original and serves only to amuse. - [❤️‍🔥Another Friend in Prison. Another Fire in My Heart.](https://robinboardman.com/another-friend-in-prison.md) - My friends are being imprisoned. I have to speak out. - [🔥 Breaking Down The Far Right - Strategies for Resistance](https://robinboardman.com/breaking-down-the-far-right.md) - The contradictions of capitalisms are tearing our social fabric once again. We've got to organise before we get a British Trump. - [🌇 There’s A Future Beyond Economic Growth - Let’s Build It](https://robinboardman.com/theres-a-future-beyond-economic-growth.md) - We have to say no to extractivism - before it tears apart the fabric of our world. - [You Can't Lock Up The Truth](https://robinboardman.com/you-cant-lock-up-the-truth.md) - The prison sentences for my friends, the Whole Truth Five, are a signal that democracy is crumbling in the UK. We must restore it or face fossil fuel fascism. - [🥚A Handshake and An Egg: Protesting For Palestine](https://robinboardman.com/a-handshake-and-an-egg-protesting-for-palestine.md) - As I held a banner and chanted along in Bristol Broadmead I felt a growing tightness in my chest. No, not another bout of Covid, thank Gaia, but a familiar, sinking feeling of knowing I have something to say but being too nervous to do it. Eventually I asked the masked student behind the microphone… - [💭How does he do it? The Habits behind Noam Chomsky](https://robinboardman.com/the-habits-behind-chomsky.md) - Noam Chomsky had a profound effect on me during my first year at University. After a year of volunteering, I found the world outside my student bubble in a terrible state. Nothing I did seemed to make a difference. Such futility led me to my first bout of depression. During the end of my first term… - [🌪️Shaping the Storm: 5 Reasons to Not Leave Twitter/𝕏](https://robinboardman.com/5-reasons-to-not-leave-twitter.md) - It feels like not a day can go by without an 𝕏 scandal. The platform has recently become a scorching hotbed of disinformation, climate denial and bots. Many have been hurt and burnt in the process. Thousands of climate scientists have already left. In fact, almost half of regular American green tw… - [Inheriting Revolution: Common Sense Solutions for Collapse](https://robinboardman.com/inheriting-revolution-a-vision-in-the-face-of-collapse.md) - Humanity faces a crisis of unprecedented proportions – a double-edged sword threatening both our planet and its people. On one side, there's the looming spectre of ecological disaster, where putting carbon in the atmosphere and other Earth System pressures are pushing the planet ‘well outside a saf… - [A World Without Magic: The Tale of a Dying Ocean🧜🏼‍♂️](https://robinboardman.com/the-death-of-ocean-magic.md) - Fresh-water springs come up through bitter brine. – Tennyson Arriving in Portugal I met a painfully familiar challenge – Covid. The once ubiquitous, now furtive flu hurled me into isolation and despair. I have chronic migraines and fatigue from my last bout with Covid, so I was seized with the drea… - [A World in Flux Ep.2: Unravelling the Enigma of the Aerosol Masking Effect😶‍🌫️](https://robinboardman.com/a-world-in-flux-ep-2-unravelling-the-enigma-of-aerosol-masking.md) - Amidst a tumultuous week marked by devastating floods in Libya and Greece, and the tragic loss of tens of thousands of lives, it's chilling to observe that major news outlets have largely overlooked the profound climate implications tied to these disasters. Journalists reporting on them tend to mer… - [A World in Flux Ep.1: Extreme Weather, Net Zero, and Political Divide 📰](https://robinboardman.com/a-world-in-flux-ep-1-extreme-weather-net-zero-and-political-divide.md) - Whilst articles on wildfires across Canada, Hawaii and Europe circulate across the world, few have connected them to the critical climate issues we face. Here’s a summary of what the corporate media narrative is often ignoring to help you understand what's going on and where to focus your action. T… - [If the sea dies, we die.](https://robinboardman.com/if-the-sea-dies-we-die.md) - With their last breath, three Mermaids handed me a letter. Dressed in fisherman’s attire, I delivered it to a representative of the Portuguese Environment Ministry, demanding an urgent meeting on ocean protection. (Video) Outside the Ministry gates, a journalist awaited my comment on the drama. The… - [The Portuguese Rebellion](https://robinboardman.com/the-portuguese-rebellion.md) - Whilst I recover from Long Covid, I've decided to continue the language studies I dropped in 2018 to help found Extinction Rebellion. Languages are my joy. They bring me ever closer to the richness of the human experience. Now I'm on a mission to mix pleasure with passion and use that fondness for… - [Civil Disobedience: A Legal Guide for Activists in Portugal](https://robinboardman.com/civil-disobedience-a-legal-guide-for-activists-in-portugal.md) - As a migrant activist in Portugal, I want to help empower others with the knowledge of their rights and the general legal procedure. I’ve translated existing materials on Portuguese Legal Advice from Fermento and Occupa: Fim do Fossil into this more comprehensive guide. It will detail the arrest pr… - [What does the latest IPCC Report mean for rebels?](https://robinboardman.com/what-does-the-2023-ipcc-report-mean-for-the-climate-movement.md) - The 2023 report is the final update from the IPCC before the end of the decade and it highlights the urgent need for strong progress by 2030 to mitigate the worst of climate chaos. Given that its primary audience, Governments, are failing abysmally to act on that advice, I've summarised the report… - [Visioning Being The Change](https://robinboardman.com/being-the-change-visioning.md) - Like many activists, I've often struggled with the balance of working within the current system, supporting alternatives to it, and creating changes in my own life. This imbalance can be hard to sit with. It brings up a variety of questions about effectiveness, morals, and pragmatism. I have found… - [Does XR need a Moderate or Radical Flank?](https://robinboardman.com/moderate-or-radical-flank.md) - In the run up to the Spring Rebellion the word strategy is hotly discussed. But what, concretely, are the different strategies being proposed for the climate movement? In this post and upcoming ones, I hope to try and clear the mist around a few proposals. To start, I'll break down the key points o… - [My Rebel Grandmother - Fi Radford Obituary](https://robinboardman.com/my-rebel-grandmother-fi-radford-obituary.md) - 'There is no Wealth but Life' - John Ruskin When I read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's first report from 1989, I felt betrayed by older generations. Written a decade before I was born it clearly outlined the risk of global temperatures increasing between 1.5-5 degrees celsius. Thes… - [Civil Resistance in The Australian Climate Movement](https://robinboardman.com/civilresistanceaus.md) - This is a summary of a new academic paper on the state of play in the Australian climate movement. The paper offers an analysis of the successes and failures of the movement and makes recommendations for campaigners on how to improve their rates of success. It covers hundreds of groups and campaign… - [Four Lessons for the Long Haul - What Long Covid has taught me on resilience](https://robinboardman.com/four-lessons-for-the-long-haul.md) - Originally published on Writer's Rebel (05/11/21) When the paramedics came for me in the sweltering days of May 2020 it didn’t feel real. I had just passed out in the heat and collapsed headfirst into a radiator. I’d seen paramedics attend to friends and relatives, but in my feverish state, it didn… - [Letter from a Bristol Cell - Make Ecocide Law](https://robinboardman.com/letter-from-bristol-cell.md) - Originally published in Bristol Post (16/10/2018) What do we have to live for when the world around us is falling apart? Runaway climate change, as mentioned by the UN Secretary General last month, now poses an existential threat to the human race. Everyone gone forever. We have the right to challe… - [Standing by Our Lecturers - University Strikes](https://robinboardman.com/standing-by-our-lecturers-university-strikes-archive.md) - Orginally published in Bristol 24/7 (Archive - 07/03/2018) When I stepped out of the student bubble, I found the world bursting in chaos. Like many, I find simple peace in the love of those around me and in the good deeds of those who aren’t. The 12 Americans, for example, who campaigned for decade… ## Optional - [RSS Feed](https://robinboardman.com/rss/) - [Sitemap](https://robinboardman.com/sitemap.xml) - [Full content of pages and posts](https://robinboardman.com/llms-full.txt)