Category Archives: Protest

What happens when the law no longer protects us?

Posted on September 30, 2023 by John Gibbons

Imagine you could somehow project yourself 10 or 20 years into the future, and were looking back at the world in the 2020s, in full knowledge of the slow-motion catastrophe that was unfolding. What would you have done differently? I … Continue reading →

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Dispatches from a young eco-activist

Posted on August 20, 2023 by John Gibbons

I filed this review of ‘It’s Not Just You’, by Tori Tsui for the Business Post in August. While it makes a few interesting points, overall it fails to escape the dense tangle of eco-jargon and will be a struggle … Continue reading →

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Turning climate protest into an art form

Posted on October 22, 2022 by John Gibbons

An ingenious protest involving soup and a famous painting threw the global spotlight on the climate emergency in a way that a thousand scientific articles, petitions and marches seemed to have failed to do. I was asked by TheJournal.ie for … Continue reading →

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