Profile Extinction Rebellion: A lean, green machine

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Age: six months

Appearance: fresh-faced

Newsworthiness: the youthful anti-climate change movement is fast picking up a huge head of steam

Ciaran O’Carroll linked arms with several other Extinction Rebellion protesters as they blockaded traffic on O’Connell Bridge in Dublin two weeks ago. He is 31 years old. To his left was an 18-year-old climate science student, to his right a 70-year-old woman with a picture of her granddaughter around her neck.

“This ...