Forget FOMO, leading climate psychologist Caroline Hickman warns about an emerging trend among young people - FOFE: fear of facing extinction. In a time scale of merely a year, born from stark warnings from scientists, and bred by mass mobilisations of grassroots activism across the globe,...
A Professor of Psychology on the relationship between the discipline and the nature of the climate and ecological crisis. Dr Matthew Adams sees no social change more profound than the ecological crisis. It began to trouble him in the mid-2000s, around about the same time...
Academics are calling for a radical reform of the current curriculum - one that reflects the social and environmental challenges of today’s world. Italy’s education minister recently announced that starting September 2020, all its public schools will require students in every grade to study climate change...
I have created and edited a news report on my phone for the Thomson Foundation competition. The requirements state that it needs to be filmed and edited on a mobile device and they judge it on the following: Journalism: Originality and credibility of the story,...
Date of broadcast: 10 October, 2019 Headline: Extinction Rebellion protesters confront BBC with the 'climate truth' Studio introduction: Extinction Rebellion activists have called on the BBC to “tell the full truth” about the climate crisis as they protested outside its headquarters in central London. Activists have set...
Young striker Sophie Andrews, Petra Metzger, and Bee Holland will sit outside the Labour headquarters for the duration of their Hunger strike. On the 18th of November members of the Extinction Rebellion from across the world began a 7-day hunger strike which aims to highlight the...
Broadcast date:22nd November, 2019 Extinction Rebellion activists are currently on a global hunger strike. Josh Mbu spoke to the activists outside conservative and labour headquarters about what they doing and why. https://youtu.be/rIrxnL-s1CY For this specific VT my role was the reporter. I worked closely with both Kika and...
Length: 1:46 minutes Headline: 83 year old climate change activist goes on hunger strike Lead in: Extinction Rebellion in their latest attempt to shine a light on the climate emergency have gone on hunger strike. We sent JLDN reporter Joshua Mbu down to the Labour Party HQ...
Broadcast date: 22nd November 2019 link: https://youtu.be/yGm5V4YJIDI I have chosen the YouTube show which was broadcasted live on the 22nd November 2019. I have chosen this specific show for my critical explication as I played a significant role that week. I was a reporter for the VT...
The UK food import test, should we be consuming locally grown produce? Find out if the UK is unnecessarily importing fruit and vegetables that can be easily grown in our own country. Stopping the 40% of food importations we are currently on will heavily reduce the...