Why might people be feeling disempowered to tackle climate change? How are youths around the world overcoming social divisions? Why does the great outdoors need to be made more accessible? And what are the benefits of taking a slower approach to online and offline activism?
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Between 1999 and 2014, Bel Jacobs was Style Editor for Metro. The fall of Rana Plaza in 2013 forced a re-assessment; today, she is a writer, speaker and activist with a focus on animal rights, climate justice, alternative systems in fashion and the need to transform culture in answer to the climate emergency. She is co-founder of Fashion Act Now, a campaign group with a focus on de-growth; co-founder of Islington Climate Centre, a community centre aiming to inform, engage and connect communities to the realities of and solutions to the climate emergency; founder of The Empathy Project, which aims to reframe human and animal relationships for the benefit of all.
