There’s pink smoke billowing from the balcony of the Guildhall, a giant pink table thronged by activists near\u00a0Trafalgar Square which means Extinction Rebellion’s two-week-long programme of\u00a0civil disobedience\u00a0in London has kicked off. Charlie Gardner is there and was asked to comment in this piece in The Independent.<\/p>\n
The Independent’s Harry Cockburn<\/a> asks how eco-friendly do you have to be before you are allowed to be concerned about environmental destruction?<\/em><\/p>\n When asked to comment, Dr Charlie Gardner pushed back on the premise.<\/p>\n \u201cI reject the premise of this question -what the ordinary British citizen needs to change in their lives. What I personally am involved in [the environment movement] for, is to oblige governments to change the rules of the game the rest of us have to play by.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the entire piece here.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n For updates from Charlie at #Impossiblerebellion follow him on twitter here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s pink smoke billowing from the balcony of the Guildhall, a giant pink table thronged by activists near\u00a0Trafalgar Square which means Extinction Rebellion’s two-week-long programme … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":6812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6811"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6818,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions\/6818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}