David Williams wrote on a facebook share of this article:

"Glad I’m not the only one feeling pissed off about this lot. They don’t seem to have any clear objectives, let alone achievable aims. One of their demands is “The Government must tell the truth about the climate and wider ecological emergency, reverse inconsistent policies and work alongside the media to communicate with citizens”. What serious decentralised anarcho-syndicalist group has ever trusted the government to tell the truth, let alone do so by colluding with the media! Yep, closer government ties to the media to get to the truth, is that seriously what they’re suggesting?

We know when we’re faced with insurmountable goals people are more likely to give up than fight, and their rhetoric of fatalism combined with no real solution other than to ‘rebel’ is going to have far reaching consequences for genuine grassroots groups. It will turn vast swathes of the public against genuine activism, people with clear goals and achievable aims. The anti-fracking campaign is a winnable fight, theirs isn’t, essentially demanding the whole world needs to change (no matter how true) won’t be won by protesting. It will undermine serious local grassroots attempts at genuine change by lumping them all together in the eyes of the public. It will make getting public support for groups trying to start a community allotment or local green energy cooperative more difficult because of the bad public image environmental activism will get as a result of XR.

I’m extremely alarmed at their enthusiasm for people to get themselves arrested. Yes, plenty of people have been arrested on anti-fracking camps, but this is usually while taking meaningful action. XR seem to see getting arrested as a goal in itself. Without getting drawn into a conspiratorial debate, the question has to be asked what they expect to achieve by this. Once arrested the police can take your details, fingerprints and DNA. Now, I don’t know if there are sinister reasons behind that, it may just be incompetence, either way I can’t see a good reason to support it.

They seem to want to suck up the successes of already established groups and claim the glory for themselves. They seem to think they can provide an overarching umbrella that will encompass smaller groups into a mass movement. What they don’t seem to see is these small groups have been successful because they’ve grown organically and formed strong roots within local communities where people know each other.It's the being small and independent that's their strength. These fuckers seem to have dropped out of the sky with mainstream national press coverage, if you ever wanted to infiltrate and destroy the hard fought achievements of environmental activism now’s your chance to pay some pricks with bricks and spray paint while the national press is beaming it into your homes. Fucking shambles."