Before I gave all my books away, my shelves were generously populated with histories of the UK environment movement. It’s a blessing that I’m not able to refer to them now, given that I have just 1,000 words to do the same! So it’s big picture time.

When I was director of Friends of the Earth back in the 1980s, I was wont to use a lot of Star Wars analogies: we were the good guys (the Jedi, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and a lot of Ewoks to cheer us all up); the despoilers of the environment were the bad guys, marshalled by various ‘Darth Vaders’ in politics, industry and the media. We had many ...

 

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