After 40 years of climate activism, I feel a surge of hope | Angie Zelter

26.06.2019

I was arrested at an Extinction Rebellion protest and found guilty of an offence. But I don't regret it for a secondI am now 68 years of age but when I was 21, in my final year at university, I became aware of major problems then facing the world - war, poverty, acid rain, ozone depletion, desertification, deforestation, species loss, civil and military uses and abuses of nuclear power, pollution, population growth, consumerism and the climate crisis. Related: Extinction Rebellion protester convicted of public order offence Continue reading...

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