Audio — ‘We Have to Be Here’: Inside Britain’s New Climate Activism

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If I asked you to picture a climate activist in your mind, what would they look like? All summer, climate activists from Extinction Rebellion and the school strikes have been filling our screens, on news reports and social media timelines. Sometimes, all the images seem to blur into one.

But climate activism is changing. What I wanted to know is: how? What does climate activism look like following the rise of school climate strikers and mass arrest protests?