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CLIMATE OF LIESJessica Townsend

Jessica Townsend — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 09:34:21 +0000

Who or what do you personally blame for the crisis? The twin problems of ecological and climate collapse now seem to overlap so profoundly with our many other issues, such as the cost of living and fuel crises, that many are just calling the whole entangled mess the polycrisis. The finger definitely points at [...]

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Jessica Townsend’s Court StatementJessica Townsend

toby — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 12:24:57 +0000

Whenever I hear an interviewer or journalist say; ‘We know all about the climate crisis but why are you disrupting the ordinary people of Britain?’ I know that they have seen some headlines and they have probably read a few articles, but they don’t know about the crisis. Not really. If they had [...]

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There is a planJessica Townsend

Jessica Townsend — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 07:00:59 +0000

It has taken 3.5 billion years of life for this planet to evolve into its present beauty and complexity. Yet it has only taken my lifetime for half the carbon emissions now present to appear in the atmosphere. Today everything alive on our miraculous Earth is under threat. Yet there is a plan, which [...]

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Support the Tufton 3Jessica Townsend

Jessica Townsend — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 07:00:14 +0000

A Writers Rebel Campaign On Trial for Causing Criminal Damage to the Home of Dark Money Extinction Rebellion co-founder Clare Farrell, Professor Rupert Read and I are in the heart of London to perform an act of civil disobedience. Later, we expect to be arrested. I don’t know about the others, but I’m nervous. [...]

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Listen: Where is the heart of climate denial in the UK?

toby — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 09:08:04 +0000

Who are the main people and organisations coming between the UK people and policy progress to address the climate and ecological emergency? Questions like this led Writers Rebel to organize an action in a quiet privileged street in the heart of the parliamentary district in London. The Writers Rebel action in Tufton Street: No More [...]

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Read: #LiesLiesLiesJessica Townsend

Jessica Townsend — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 13:29:10 +0000

I first got involved with Extinction Rebellion when I was researching a novel set in 2030. As I read the science, waves of emotion crashed over me: anger, dismay, grief. I had a lot of questions: why hadn’t I heard any of this before? Why wasn’t the crisis on the front pages? Why, too, [...]

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Read: Where Are Their Cats? Jessica Townsend

Jessica Townsend — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 07:43:26 +0000

I remember the moment of panic on the tube as it clattered towards Waterloo. Was I really going to go through with this? I was in my mid-fifties, a grandmother to two, and I had agreed to be part of a topless protest on Waterloo Bridge. What was I thinking? Let’s begin with the easy [...]

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