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 ## 2025-04-23
 
+### @{xr-declaration}
+
+'This is our darkest hour'. 'The science is clear -- we are in the sixth mass
+extinction event and we will face catastrophe if we do not act swiftly and
+robustly.' Doing nothing is madness. Since the Government has failed to protect
+us from this threat, democracy and the social contract are not in effect and it
+is our right and 'sacred duty' to rebel against the Government. We demand that
+we 'apply informed solutions' and convene a National Assembly. We rebel
+peacefully.
+
+The Declaration has hope in it: there is hope that by rebelling against the
+Government, instituting true democracy, and listening to the scientists, we can
+avert catastrophe. It is rousing rhetoric. I felt roused. It depends on hope
+that we can avert catastrophe, though, but at the same time it emphasises what a
+slim hope that is, which also leaves me feeling stressed and depressed.
+
 ### @{inconvenient-truth}
 
 Big idea: global warming is happening, you can do something about it, reduce