About this Event
Hosted by the Edge of the World Bookshop and held in the Trafalgar Room at the Union Hotel, Chapel Street, Penzance. Join us for an evening of fascinating insights with veteran campainger Jonathon Porritt.
What good is persuasion if no one is paying attention?
Why have Just Stop Oil's resolute young campaigners chose civil disobedience?
The climate crisis deepens with terrifying predictability. Meanwhile, many of the young campaigners who seek to wake us up to the truth of this, through peaceful direct action, are silenced and stuck in Pr*son.
They do not see themselves as brave heroes, nor as dangerous extremists; they do care about science and the role it should play in government policy. As their personal profiles in the book reveal, their civil disobedience is driven by desperation, and motivated primarily by love - for those who have already felt the impact of a radically changing climate and for those whose lives will be blighted in the future, often in countries which have done least to cause the crisis. Mis-represented and often reviled in the media, Just Stop Oil and other 'Radical Flank' environmental campaigners will be deservedly recognised in future, just as the Suffragettes have been, for the crucially important role they continue to play in the climate movement.
Jonathon Porritt spent a year working with twenty-six Just Stop Oil campaigners to co-create his latest book Love, Anger & Betrayal. He is a well-known environmental campaigner working on behalf of the Green Party and Friends of the Earth and others since the 1970s. His experience means he is now driven by a fierce commitment to Intergenerational Justice. The campaigners featured in his book feel part of the interlinked chain of humanity, empathising more powerfully with future generations than so many of us, even when many of them may well decide never to have children of their own.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Union Hotel, 59 Chapel Street, Penzance, United Kingdom
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