Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Why you don’t have to block roads or glue yourself to buildings to be a climate activist

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Bob Walley, Researcher in Climate Change Engagement and Communication, University of Lancashire

“Get a job!” shouted yet another driver going past me in the sweeping rain outside Preston New Road fracking site, on another bitingly cold winters day. Recipients of these outbursts were mostly retirees like the Nanas of Lancashire (a group of women from the northern shire of England who had become prominent anti-fracking activists).

My mum often joined me and other protesters to oppose the exploratory drilling that throughout 2018 and 2019 caused earthquakes. Local people were worried about the damage this…

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