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Forced Inside, Climate Activists Are Making Noise From Their Living Rooms
It hasn’t been easy, but they’ve kept the fight alive on the internet.
Members of Extinction Rebellion participate in a socially-distant Earth Day demonstration in Bloomington, U.S.
Photographer: Jeremy Hogan/Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images
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For much of last year, youth-led climate protest movements dominated public conversation. Greta Thunberg, Fridays for Future, and Extinction Rebellion seemed to rotate on the world’s front pages.
With 2020, however, came the novel coronavirus and the sweeping quarantine orders that forced activists back into their homes. Some worried the movements would fall apart. They haven’t—but that doesn’t mean it’s been a simple task to keep them going.