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Telling the Truth, Extinction Rebellion: Dr Gail Bradbrook & Dr Gabrielle Walker
Creating the Future Conference – 1 October 2019 – Hosted by Weatherbys Bank…
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RABBIS AND ROYALS, SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS, CRUSTIES AND CONSERVATIONISTS: All take to the streets for an unprecedented International Rebellion to call for radical action on the climate crisis
Two weeks of peaceful protesting saw tens of thousands of people in over 60 cities around the world take to the streets to demand that their respective governments act on the issue of climate breakdown.
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THE CLIMATE IS A-CHANGIN’
People of Earth cease what you’re doing And know that the oceans around us are growing The icecaps are melting, the glaciers are going Our leaders keep on ignoring The gravest threat the world’s ever known For the climate is a-changin’. Giant corporations that profit from oil Your fossil…
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The sound of Nature
Listen up! Are you a good listener? Let’s start with rhubarb. A few years ago a farm in Yorkshire posted a recording of their rhubarb growing. The bursting buds and squelching mud are quite a surprise – a mixture of popcorn and beatboxing. Tuning into the soundscape is an important way of reconnecting…
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Snapped Ankles HARE & HOUNDS, KINGS HEATH
I’m fifty-four years old, 6’3, and have the grace and poise of an arthritic hippopotamus, so I am not renowned for my dancing skills. It takes a lot to get me to shake my stuff without inhibition. Lots of beer can sometimes do it, or, apparently, a live performance from London post- punk ravers ‘Snapped…
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Eco Grief
Death is an everyday occurrence and yet death is incomprehensible in the mind of the living. An old person dying is an ordinary event, but it is extraordinary if it is someone you love. The impact of grief can be so overwhelming that it can strip a person’s life of meaning and rinse them through…
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BRITISH WILDLIFE ICONS: The bumblebee and the importance of wildflowers
A small insect that has been lucky enough to receive media attention over the last few years due to declining numbers is the humble bee. Over a third of the food we eat relies on pollinators to grow, and there are a number of factors impacting bee populations across the UK. One of the…
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Civil Disobedience is Inevitable
We are entering a time in UK public life where faith in long standing democratic processes and decision making are in terminal decline. The evidence of this is all around us. There have emerged single issues like Brexit and climate change, which the representative constituency system has failed to properly address. We have arrived…
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RIGHTS OF NATURE
I am a member of a group of lawyers that has written a Declaration of Rebellion to call for Justice for All. We call for climate justice for everyone on Earth, for intergenerational justice, and for ecological justice. I will write about the last point here. Historically, in the UK legal system nature has…
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