

Just the way series#
To try to get people emotionally engaged with climate action, 19-year-old Bella Lack chose to collect a series of stories which became the book The Children of the Anthropocene. For 19-year-old Bella Lack, a campaigner turned climate author, standing up for what is right was achieved by finding young people across the planet who were working to make changes in their communities that help improve the world and may inspire others. It is time to break that cycle and stand up for what is right.”ĭifferent activists are treading different paths to try to achieve this.

“We will not continue as generations have before and allow our actions today to have devastating consequences on those tomorrow. “It is wilful blindness and it is going to kill us,” Whelehan wrote. Both suffered through interviews with presenters that “think they know better than chief scientists or academics who have been studying the climate crisis for decades, and they refuse to hear otherwise”. Whelehan told the Guardian she understood why people thought there were parallels between her experience and that of the film’s characters played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. Miranda Whelehan, a campaigner with the activist group Just Stop Oil, expressed similar sentiments in April after she was ridiculed by a presenter on British morning television in a scene that could have come straight out of the satirical film Don’t Look Up. ‘We will not continue as generations have before and allow our actions today to have devastating consequences on those tomorrow’: Miranda Whelehan.
