Caroline Patricia Lucas is a British politician who was the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2003 to 2006,2007 to 2012,and 2016 to 2018. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Brighton Pavilion from 2010 to 2024. She was the Green Party's first MP and their only MP until the 2024 general election.
Peter Guy Winch was a British philosopher known for his contributions to the philosophy of social science,Wittgenstein scholarship,ethics,and the philosophy of religion. His early book The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy (1958) was an attack on positivism in the social sciences,drawing on the work of R. G. Collingwood and Ludwig Wittgenstein's later philosophy.
Tamsin Omond is a British author,environmental activist and journalist. They have campaigned for the government of the United Kingdom to take action to avoid climate change.
Alice Crary is an American philosopher who currently holds the positions of University Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Faculty,The New School for Social Research in New York City and Visiting Fellow at Regent's Park College,University of Oxford,U.K..
Tim O'Riordan OBE DL FBA is a British geographer who is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and a prominent British environmental writer and thinker.
Clive Anthony Lewis is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich South since 2015. Lewis was a candidate for Leader of the Labour Party in the 2020 leadership election. He is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group parliamentary caucus.
Zion Lights is a British author and activist known for her environmental work and science communication.
Alexander David Sobel is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds Central and Headingley,previously Leeds North West,since 2017. He served as Shadow Minister for Nature Recovery and the Domestic Environment from 2021 to 2023.
The 2019 United Kingdom local elections took place on Thursday 2 May 2019,with 248 English local councils,six directly elected mayors in England,and all 11 local councils in Northern Ireland being contested.
Catherine Joanna Rowett is a British academic and former Member of the European Parliament representing the Green Party of England and Wales. She is Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. She is known in particular for her work on Greek Philosophy,especially the Pre-Socratic philosophers. She was a Green Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England from 2019 until 31 January 2020,when the United Kingdom left the European Union.
Extinction Rebellion is a UK-founded global environmental movement,with the stated aim of using nonviolent civil disobedience to compel government action to avoid tipping points in the climate system,biodiversity loss,and the risk of social and ecological collapse. Extinction Rebellion was established in Stroud in May 2018 by Gail Bradbrook,Simon Bramwell,Roger Hallam,Stuart Basden,along with six other co-founders from the campaign group Rising Up!
Sunrise Movement is an American 501(c)(4) political action organization that advocates political action on climate change. When launched in 2017,the movement's goal was to elect proponents of renewable energy in the 2018 midterm elections,first in the Democratic primaries and then in the general election held on November 6,2018. Since the midterm elections,the movement has been working towards shifting the Overton window on climate policy to center the environmental program known as the Green New Deal.
The extinction symbol represents the threat of holocene extinction on Earth;a circle represents the planet and a stylised hourglass is a warning that time is running out for many species. The symbol dates to at least 2012 and has been attributed to anonymous East London artist Goldfrog ESP. The symbol has been called "this generation's peace sign". It is used by environmental protesters,and has been incorporated in works by artists and designers such as Banksy. In 2019,the Victoria and Albert Museum acquired a digital copy of the symbol,and other artifacts featuring the symbol,for its permanent collection.
Eleanor Elizabeth "Ellie" Chowns is a British Green Party politician,serving as the Member of Parliament for North Herefordshire since 2024. She previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the West Midlands for the party from 2019 to 2020. She has been a councillor on Herefordshire Council since 2017,representing the Bishops Frome &Cradley ward,and is leader of the council's Green group.
Julian Roger Hallam is an environmental activist and convicted criminal who co-founded Extinction Rebellion,Just Stop Oil,Insulate Britain,the cooperative federation organisation Radical Routes,and the political party Burning Pink. In April 2024,Hallam was given a suspended two year sentence for attempting to block Heathrow Airport with drones. In July 2024,Hallam was convicted of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance for organising protests to block the M25 motorway two years prior,for which he was sentenced to five years' imprisonment.
Extinction Rebellion (XR) is an international "non-violent civil disobedience" movement carrying out demonstrations worldwide to highlight governments' inaction on climate change. Since 2018,Extinction Rebellion has taken a variety of actions in Europe,the US,and rapidly elsewhere in the world,to urge political and economic forces to take action amid the climate crisis. Although,their non-violent disobedience protests are an effort to generate attention around environmental issues,XR activists have become known for civil disobedience and disruptive tactics.
Animal Rising is a British animal activist movement with the stated aim of compelling social change towards animal rights and a plant-based food system. They justify their actions with the impact of animal agriculture on climate change,species extinction and ecosystem breakdown.
Sea Rotmann is a New Zealand-based marine biologist. She was a spokesperson and organiser for the Wellington chapter of environmental advocacy group Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa New Zealand.
Deep Adaptation is a concept,agenda,and international social movement. It presumes that extreme weather events and other effects of climate change will increasingly disrupt food,water,shelter,power,and social and governmental systems. These disruptions would likely or inevitably cause uneven societal collapse in the next few decades. The word “deep”indicates that strong measures are required to adapt to an unraveling of industrial lifestyles,following prior usages such as deep ecology. The agenda includes values of nonviolence,compassion,curiosity and respect,with a framework for constructive action.
Burning Pink,also known as Beyond Politics and formally registered with the Electoral Commission as The Burning Pink Party,was a British political party with the stated goal of a political revolution by replacing the British government with citizens' assemblies in order to tackle the climate crisis and other political issues. The party was deregistered by the Electoral Commission on 11 November 2022.
