Tag Archive for: Extinction Rebellion

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Suicide | Roger Hallam

 

A hybrid of memoir and political manifesto, Suicide was written during the author’s imprisonment after the high-profile Whole Truth Five trial linked to Just Stop Oil. Hallam, one the founders of Extinction Rebellion, presents the defence he was banned from making in court, exposing the legal system’s failure to confront the climate crisis. Drawing on climate science, legal theory, and personal experience, he argues that the institutions meant to protect society are collapsing. In both his critique of modern thinking and his forceful call for direct action, he urges readers to rethink justice, duty, and truth in an age of ecological emergency.

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Sarn Helen | Tom Bullough

 

An award-winning account of a journey through Wales, following a former Roman road. Written with great beauty and a profound understanding of the Welsh landscape, Sarn Helen combines conversations with experts in climate and ecology and an exploration of the 5th and 6th century “Age of Saints” to explore our relationship with the natural world, the challenges we face and the probable shape of our future, concluding with an account of the author’s arrest during an Extinction Rebellion protest. – James Miller

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Why Rebel | Jay Griffiths

Why rebel? Because our footprint on the Earth has never mattered more than now. How we treat it, in the spirit of gift or of theft, has never been more important.

Because we need a politics of kindness, but the very opposite is on the rise. Libertarian fascism, with its triumphal brutalism, its racism and misogyny – a politics that loathes the living world.

Because nature is not a hobby. It is the life on which we depend, as Indigenous societies have never forgotten.

Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars, and they are lining up now to write rebellion across the skies.

‘This, bluntly, should be our generation’s Gettysburg Address’ ~ Rishi Dastidar, selected Why Rebel for guest contribution to May 2023’s What We’re Reading Now.

Jay Griffiths has been a long time collaborator with Extinction Rebellion and Writers Rebel. Last year, in collaboration with actor Mark Rylance, composers Sam Lee & Anna Phoebe and Paint the Land, she co-produced Almost Invisible Angels, a haunting short film which speaks out in praise of insects. Her accompanying written piece for Writers Rebel gives us a chilling insight into a world without insects – a world that creeps uncomfortably closer with every month of global inaction to protect our remaining biodiversity.