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Jonathan Porritt has been campaigning for environmental and social justice, while simultaneously advising governments, businesses and NGOs, for over fifty years.

His new book Love, Anger & Betrayal: Just Stop Oil’s Young Climate Campaigners is described by Caroline Lucas, former leader of the Green Party, as ‘deeply uncomfortable but overwhelmingly necessary’; its principal purpose to give a voice to campaigners who, through peaceful direct action, are being silenced, vilified, and stuck in prison.

As the climate crisis deepens, so does Jonathon’s commitment to intergenerational justice. He spent a year interviewing, compiling commentaries and profiles from the 26 campaigners featured in the book, linking their human stories to a definitive narrative of the climate crisis that encompasses science, politics and the justice system.

In Love, Anger and Betrayal, the anger is mostly his. As the personal profiles of the campaigners in the book reveal, their civil disobedience is driven by desperation, but motivated primarily by love – for those already impacted by a radically changing climate and for those whose lives will be blighted in the future. They do not see themselves as brave heroes, nor as dangerous extremists; they do care about science and the role it should play in government policy.

He argues that without civil disobedience and the divisive disruption that ensues, scarcely any of the democratic rights we enjoy, including civil rights and the votes for women, would exist. In fact, XR and Just Stop Oil can lay claim to having initiated the government’s declaration of a climate emergency in 2019 and for Labour’s mandate to no longer issue new licences for any oil and gas investment.

But our democratic right to non-violent protest, the bedrock of democracy, can see you face serious charges though the work of civil resistance goes on.

In association with Nottingham XR (Extinction Rebellion)