What good are science and rational
persuasion if no one is paying attention?
The climate crisis deepens with terrifying predictability. Meanwhile, the courageous young campaigners who seek to wake us up to the 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 to 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 of civil resistance goes on.
Jonathon Porritt 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.
Jonathon Porritt
For more than fifty years, Jonathon Porritt has been campaigning for the environment and social justice, while simultaneously advising governments, businesses and NGOs.The author of many highly respected books, he still believes that it is ‘not too late’ to avoid climate breakdown. But the thrust of Love, Anger & Betrayal is that it soon will be.