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TUESDAY 22nd July @ 18:00 BST
Jonathon Porritt CBE
Love, Anger and Betrayal
Jonathon Porritt is an angry man. Known internationally as an eminent writer and campaigner on sustainable development he demands a call to action and the title of his latest book underscores the challenge and requires our attention before it is too late.
What is your view?
In his new book he questions why “What good are science and rational persuasion if no one is paying attention?’
To elaborate further he states that “The climate crisis deepens with terrifying predictability. Meanwhile the courageous young campaigners who seek to wake us up to then truth of this, through peaceful direct action, are silenced and stuck in prison. Theirs is a generation systematically betrayed by politicians. And by all of us who allow this no continue, on our watch, year after year.
Just Stop Oil stopped active campaigning in March 2025. But for most of its remarkable young activists, the work goes on.
Jonathon spent a year working with twenty-six Just Stop Oil campaigners to co-create Love, Anger & Betrayal driven by a fierce commitment to intergenerational justice”
Expect tonight’s presentation to be challenging so ensure you join us
Biography
Since stepping down from Forum for the Future in May 2023, Jonathon has “returned to his campaigning roots”, supporting the Green Party and radical climate campaigns such as Just Stop Oil and Defend our Juries.
In 1996, he co-founded Forum for the Future, a leading international sustainable development charity, working with business and civil society to accelerate the shift toward a sustainable future. He was also a co-founder of the Prince of Wales Business and Sustainability Programme.
Throughout that time, Jonathon provided strategic advice to leading UK and international companies to deepen their understanding of today’s converging environmental and climate crises.
He is now much more focused on intergenerational justice, supporting young people in their activities around sustainable development issues as they face a future defined by the twin crises of the Climate Emergency and Biodiversity Emergency.
He is President of The Conservation Volunteers and Population Matters, and is involved in the work of many other NGOs and groups.
Jonathon was formerly Co-Chair of the Green Party (1980-83) and Director of Friends of the Earth (1984-90). He was a Board Member of The Southwest Regional Development Agency between 1999 and 2008. He stood down as Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission in 2009, after nine years providing high-level advice to Government Ministers, and served a ten-year term as Chancellor of Keele University (2012-2022).
Jonathon was awarded a CBE in January 2000 for services to environmental protection.
His recent book, Hope in Hell (Simon & Schuster, 2020, revised 2021), is a powerful ‘call to action’ on the Climate Emergency but his latest book Love, Anger and Betrayal builds on Before that, he authored nine other books, the first being ‘Seeing Green’ in 1984.
