“It would be much easier for this Government to win support for its policies on bringing in a lot more wind and solar, if it were clear to local communities that they would actually benefit…” Edited excerpt courtesy of GBNews Afternoon Britain, watch entire episodes here.

Throwing soup at Van Gogh's sunflowers. Blocking traffic and vandalising buildings with spray paint. Are these disruptive tactics necessary for climate activists to shift the conversation and achieve their goals? Or are they antisocial measures that risk alienating the public and hurting the climate movement altogether?

I was invited to be guest speaker at the Million Tree Pledge’s Netwalk and Lunch in Brighton.

We need to have a mass moderate flank to the environmental movement, far bigger than the exciting innovations we saw with the School Strikers and Extinction Rebellion. How will this be done? http://ClimateMajorityProject.Earth/ The good news is that patience with our institutions is at an all time low, and people are hungry for new voices. Greta‘s voice echoed much farther than it could have previously because ears were waiting for it, and XR has broken the taboo on blunt climate truth-telling. Many who’ve long suspected that serious action will come only after the possibility of environmental disaster becomes too obvious to be ignored are poised on the sidelines.

A talk at a student-led symposium, organised by Schumacher College and Dartington Arts School, with a Q&A at the end.