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. Unflinching, urgent and necessary, the book is driven by a fierce commitment to intergenerational justice. 

Join us at The Conduit for an intergenerational conversation based on deep experience and the utmost respect, between renowned environmentalist Jonathon Poritt and two of the young campaigners with whom he wrote Love, Anger & Betrayal, Cole Macdonald and Oliver Clegg.

Event Schedule

12:15pm: Pre-event socialising and networking

12:30pm: Event begins

1:30pm: Event ends

Speakers:

Jonathon Porritt is an eminent writer and campaigner on sustainable development. For the last 30 years, Jonathon has provided strategic advice to leading UK and international companies to deepen their understanding of today’s converging environmental and climate crises. He is also focused on intergenerational justice, supporting young people in their activities around sustainable development issues as they face a future defined by the twin crises of the Climate Emergency and Biodiversity Emergency. He is President of The Conservation Volunteers and is involved in the work of many other NGOs and groups. In 1996, he co-founded Forum for the Future, a leading international sustainable development charity, working with business and civil society to accelerate the shift toward a sustainable future.

Jonathon was formerly Co-Chair of the Green Party (1980-83) and Director of Friends of the Earth (1984-90). He stood down as Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission in 2009, after nine years providing high-level advice to Government Ministers, and served a ten-year term as Chancellor of Keele University (2012-2022). Jonathon was awarded a CBE in January 2000 for services to environmental protection.