England - people, environment and sustainability Event

Never before have climate change and the environment been so prominent in the political agenda, and yet never before have humans lived lives so distant from natural ecosystems, so superficially freed from their constraints and so bereft of their wonder. In England, there are threads of resistance to this estrangement that hark back to enclosure. Yet environmental discourse takes place far from people’s lives, either in the abstract world of technocracy or the trivial world of ethical consumerism. The Common Good Foundation, supported by Purpose, have developed a manifesto for a popular environmentalism, rooted in English traditions, that would re-enchant our relationship with nature.

Speakers:

Tobias Phibbs: Common Good Foundation; author of ‘Popular Environmentalism’

Alison Barnes: Chief Executive, New Forest National Park Authority

Ian Christie: lecturer and researcher at the Centre for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Surrey.

Please register here to receive your zoom link to attend this webinar.

Further information available on the Centre for English Identity and Politics website.