Roger Hallam, success or failure?

A collection of climate stories mostly

I’m not a big fan of Stroud. It’s a poor one street town with a slope and a drug problem on the edge of the Cotswolds. It’s got a lot more in common with Swindon than Bourton-On-The-Water. It also happens to be where Roger Hallam lives.

Exactly.

Before my late night serendipitous taxi service for Mrs H; I wouldn’t have listened to Nick Robinson’s Political Thinking on Radio 4 or been reminded that Roger Hallam is the co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and more recently Just Stop Oil.

I’m intrigued, despite his pious, forthright delivery, perhaps from sitting through too many Methodist sermons delivered by his minister mum. This is somebody who believes fervently, that civil disobedience is the only way in which our planet can be saved from mass murder, at the hands of the elites.

He’s touching a nerve, not because of his rhetoric, which is irritating and naive, but because I know, deep-down, despite what I’ve done, I could be doing more, a lot more.

I’ve taken a hard look and found a soft liberal. I’m a fully paid up member of the nimbys (not-in-my-back yard) and I don’t like the label or the feeling.

I’m in complete agreement with Hallam about the need for action right now, I’m just not buying…