News: ISSUE SIX

In praise of pauses

March 01, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

I have noticed something about people who do amazing work on behalf of our planet – they are not always good at taking breaks. I am terrible at building gaps in my life, and when I don’t, it leads to trouble. I understand why it’s hard for me to take breaks. Some of…

The relentless pursuit of profit

March 01, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

The other day I noticed some Lego kits in a shop window showing Arctic landscapes that included a mini Lego figure drilling into the ice, industrial vehicles and ice cutters. I was shocked. What do we want to tell our children about the Arctic? Perhaps about biodiversity, wildlife, Indigenous people, and maybe that the…

THE IMPACT OF LAND USE FOR DIET

March 01, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

Studies estimate that food production accounts for 19-29% of greenhouse gas emissions, 80-86% of which are agricultural. Agriculture is itself a threat to biodiversity and increases the risk of soil degradation. Modern society and the rise of capitalism has seen the middle classes expand within developing countries and this leads to increasing demands for…

Tring to Cheddington, Ashridge in the Chilterns

March 01, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

The West Coast Main Line, on its last push into the built-up South East, rises through a tantalising swathe of rolling, yearning countryside. The trains breast the scarp in minutes. Then this narrow ribbon of the Chilterns is gone. How many travellers, since Robert Stephenson built the line in the 1830s, must have…

Hastings to Rye

March 01, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

I feel the tug of the sea as I exit Hastings railway station. No need for a map. Just follow the wheeling seagulls downhill to the beach. What does the town forever linked, with geographical imprecision, to England’s biggest home-defeat do to erase 1,000 years of hurt? It turns instant recognition to its…

END THE CRAZY PAVING

March 01, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

Imagine you are trying to create inhospitable conditions for wildlife. Cut down any plants, dig out the soil, compact the ground and concrete it over. This is what millions of people in the UK choose to do when they raze their front gardens to the ground for reasons such as ‘ease of maintenance’ and…

No, I have not been brainwashed

March 01, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

‘What do you think of climate change?’ I often ask people. If they reply ‘a hoax, and if it is true it’s natural’ – I think, ‘seriously’? Then I run out of words! Or they may reply, ‘we’ve left it too late’, which I can stomach but still I’m puzzled. To put…

The planet needs actions, not words

March 01, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

The environment and the health of our planet are in the hands of you and I. Every single thing we do affects what happens. Even when we walk to school or work, most of us are wearing shoes that have been created from leather from a cow, which, over time, will wear down…

Palm Oil: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

March 01, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

The words ‘palm oil’ make my heart drop. This usually occurs when I help do the weekly grocery shop. For some years I was aware of palm oil’s impact on our environment, but it’s only in the last eighteen months that the scale of the problem has hit home. The Good Derived…

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