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A guide to Britain’s new grassroots climate groups
IAN SINCLAIR gives the lowdown on a swathe of new environmental action campaigns that have sprung up in recent years
Members of Fossil Free London protest the Shell AGM at London’s Excel Centre with 100 people disrupting the event inside, May 23 2023. Photo Credit: Andrea Domeniconi/Fossil Free London.
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PERHAPS it’s because of the pandemic, but Extinction Rebellion’s public opinion-shifting occupations of central London in 2018 and 2019 now feel a very long time ago.
Since then successive Tory governments, ignoring increasingly loud warnings from scientists and the intensification of the climate crisis, have maintained their addiction to fossil fuels and have missed their own net zero climate targets on nearly every front.
In response to this inaction numerous grassroots groups have sprung up in Britain, often led by young campaigners.
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