Guy Shrubsole | The Lie of the Land
Sat 23 Nov 2024 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm
‘The unjust impositions of historic land ownership blight all our lives – here Guy shows why’ – Chris Packham
Just 1% of the population own half the land in England. Environmental campaigner Guy Shrubsole exposes how this tiny landowning elite’s apathy has damaged our land, and meets communities fighting back: the river guardians, small farmers and trespassing activists restoring lost wildlife. Full of rage and hope, he presents a bold vision for our nation’s wild places, and how we can attend to them with the awe they deserve.
It’s time to demand better for nature. We can start by replacing the lie of the land with a profound truth: that any of us can care for the countryside, regardless of whether you own it.
In conversation with Craig Bennett, The Wildlife Trust (CEO)
Venue: Old Divinity School
Duration: 1 hour
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Author Biography
Guy Shrubsole is an environmental campaigner and writer. He is the author of Who Owns England?, an instant Sunday Times bestseller, and The Lost Rainforests of Britain, which won the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation and was shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society Literary Prize. For the past decade and a half Guy has campaigned on the climate and nature crises, working for a wide range of organisations from Friends of the Earth and the Right to Roam campaign, to the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). He lives in Devon.
Chair Biography
Craig Bennett is Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trusts. He has been described as ‘one of the country’s top environmental campaigners’ and in 2021 was included in The Sunday Times Green Power List of the UK’s top 20 environmentalists. Craig was formerly CEO of Friends of the Earth. Earlier in his career, he was Deputy Director at The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and Director of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change (from 2007 to 2010)
He is Honorary Professor of Sustainability and Innovation at Alliance Manchester Business School, an Associate Fellow of Homerton College (Cambridge), a Senior Associate of The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and a Policy Fellow of The Centre for Science and Policy at The University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Craig is also a judge on The Wainwright Book Prize, a Trustee of the think-tank Green Alliance. and an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM). He regularly appears in the print and broadcast media.
