Author’s note
1 Definition adapted from The New Collins Concise Dictionary of the English Language, Collins, London, 1987.
2 Erica Chenoweth & Jeremy Pressman, ‘Last month, 83% of US protests were against Trump’, Washington Post, 28 September 2017.
3 Hernán Cortés Saenz, Isabel Ortiz, Sara Burke & Mohamed Berrada, World Protests 2006–2013: Executive Summary, Initiative for Policy Dialogue working paper #275, Colombia University, New York.
4 Successive polls have revealed this. In September 2017, an online poll conducted by Research Now for the Australia Institute found only 30 per cent supported the mine, while 68 per cent opposed government subsidising a loan to Adani. In October, a Roy Morgan Snap SMS Survey found that 53.5 per cent of respondents thought the mine ‘should not go ahead’, while only 16 per cent thought it should; the rest either hadn’t heard of it or didn’t have a preference. A January 2018 ReachTEL poll found 65.1 per cent of Australians opposed or strongly opposed the building of the mine.
5 Gerardo Ceballos, Paul Ehrlich, Anthony Barnosky, Andrés García, Robert Pringle & Todd Palmer, ‘Accelerated modern human-induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction’, Science Advances, vol. 1, no. 5, 19 June 2015, e1400253 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1400253.
6 In January 2018. Tracey Crouch is actually Minister for Sport and Civil Society, but loneliness issues are now officially part of her portfolio.
7 Maria Alejandra Rodriguez Acha, ‘How young feminists are tackling climate justice in 2016’, Huffington Post, 3 July 2016.
8 Heidi Przybyla, ‘Women’s march an entry point for new activist wave’, USA Today, 5.
1 Quoted in Carmen Fishwick & Caroline Bannock, ‘Why we protested in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington’, The Guardian, 23 January 2017.
2 Kaveh Waddell, ‘The exhausting work of tallying America’s largest protest’, Atlantic, 23 January 2017. Spreadsheet accessed here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xa0iLqYKz8x9Yc_rfhtmSOJQ2EGgeUVjvV4A8LsIaxY/htmlview?sle=true#gid=0.
3 Jayna Zweiman, Skype interview with author, December 2017.
4 Quoted in Emily Crockett, ‘9 prominent feminists on what Hillary Clinton’s historic candidacy really means’, Vox, 22 August 2016.
5 Susan Bordo, The Destruction of Hillary Clinton, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2017, extract accessed via The Guardian here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2017/apr/03/the-destruction-of-hillary-clinton-sexism-sanders-and-the-millennial-feminists.
6 William A. Galston & Clara Hendrickson, ‘How millennials voted in this election,’ Brookings, 21 November 2016, accessed here: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2016/11/21/how-millennials-voted/.
7 Michelle Goldberg, ‘The empire strikes back’, Slate, 27 December 2016.
8 Krista Suh, Skype interview with author, December 2017.
9 Quoted in Emanuella Grinberg, ‘Hillary Clinton’s Pantsuit Nation suits up for election day’, CNN, 8 November 2016.
10 Erin Gloria Ryan, ‘Pantsuit Nation is the worst: Why a book of uplifting Facebook posts won’t heal America’, Daily Beast, 21 December 2016.
11 Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth, Vintage, London, 1991, pp. 15–16.
12 Quoted in Anne L. Macdonald, No Idle Hands: The social history of American knitting, Random House, New York, 2010.
13 Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest: How the largest social movement in history is restoring grace, justice, and beauty to the world, Kindle edition, Penguin Publishing Group, New York, 2007, p. 175.
14 Quoted in Tanya Klich, ‘What entrepreneurs can learn from the founders of the Pussyhat Project’, Forbes, 29 January 2017.
15 Holly Derr, ‘Pink flag: What message do ‘pussy hats’ really send?’, Bitch Media, 17 January 2017.
16 Blavity, 22 January 2018, accessed here: blavity.com/protesters-put-a-puy-hat-on-a-statue-of-harriet-tubman-black-twitter-asks-what-are-you-doing.
17 In Samhita Mukhopadhyay & Kate Harding (eds), Nasty Women: Feminism, resistance, and revolution in Trump’s America, Kindle edition, Picador, New York, p.119.
18 Anne Summers, telephone interview with author, December 2017.
19 Anne Summers, ‘Beware Donald Trump: The pussyhat will be the protest symbol of our times’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 February 2017.
20 Sylvia Pankhurst, The Suffragette: The History of the Women’s Militant Suffrage Movement,1905–1910, Sturgis & Walton Co., London, 1911, accessed here: archive.org/stream/suffragettehisto00pankuoft/suffragettehisto00pankuoft_djvu.txt.
1 Yoko Ono, ‘What is the relationship between the world and the artist?’, artist’s statement published in This Is Not Here, exhibition catalogue, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, 1971, accessed here: imaginepeace.com/archives/2622.
2 Betsy Greer, Skype interview with author, January 2018.
3 Betsy Greer, Knitting For Good, Trumpeter Books, Boston, 2008, p.4.
4 Patrick Barkham, ‘Iraq War 10 years on: A mass protest that defined a generation’, The Guardian, 15 February 2013.
5 Kathleen Hanna on Noisey, October 2016, accessed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLNCCvZ71m4.
6 Quoted in Patrick J. McDonnell, ‘Argentines remember a mother who joined the “disappeared”’, Los Angeles Times, 24 March 2006.
7 Quoted in Josephine Fisher, Mothers of the Disappeared, South End Press, Boston, 1989, p.54.
8 Quoted in Uki Goni, ‘40 years later, the mothers of Argentina’s “disappeared” refuse to be silent’, The Guardian, 28 April 2017.
9 Margaret Snook, ‘Chilean Arpilleras: A chapter of history written on cloth’, Cachando Chile, 11 September 2010.
10 Magda Sayeg, ‘How yarn bombing grew into a worldwide movement’, TEDYouth, November 2015.
11 Sayraphim Lothian, telephone interview with author, January 2018.
12 Clive Hamilton, ‘What do we want? Charting the rise and fall of protest in Australia’, The Conversation, 17 November 2016.
13 Casey Jenkins, telephone interview with author, January 2018.
14 Emma Rees, ‘Casting off shame through vaginal knitting’, The Conversation, 5 December 2013.
15 Germaine Greer on Balderdash and Piffle, BBC TV, January 2006.
16 Adam Weinstein, ‘Vaginal knitting is the new thing in performance art’, Gawker, 27 November 2013.
3: Make the change you wish to see
1 Gene Sharp, 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action, Porter Sargent, Boston, 1973.
2 Mark Engler & Paul Engler, This Is an Uprising, Nation Books, New York, 2017, p.14.
3 Sarah Corbett, Skype interview with author, March 2018.
4 Sarah Corbett, How to Be a Craftivist: The art of gentle protest, Kindle edn, Random House, London, 2017, Kindle locations 2602–95.
5 Tony Abbott, ‘Tony Abbott on why same sex marriage would fundamentally change society’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 September 2007.
6 Adam Gartrell, ‘Mental health groups sound alarm over dramatic same-sex marriage spike’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 September 2017.
7 Sherele Moody, ‘I’m spiralling into marriage equality depression’, The Courier Mail, 15 September 2017.
1 Amy Kazmin, ‘How Benetton faced up to the aftermath of Rana Plaza’, Financial Times, 21 April 2015.
2 Quoted in Lizzie Rivera, ‘Fashion Revolution: Behind the scenes of a £2 trillion industry’, Independent, 24 April 2017.
3 Quoted in ‘Bangladesh factory collapse toll passes 1,000’, BBC, 10 May 2013.
4 Quoted in Laura Kuenssberg, ‘Western companies “should share blame” for Bangladesh factory conditions’, ITV, 30 April 2013, accessed here: www.itv.com/news/2013-04-30/western-companies-should-share-blame-for-bangladesh-factory-conditions/.
5 Carry Somers, by email, April 2018.
6 Carry Somers, interview with author, London, September 2014.
7 Orsola de Castro, Skype interview with author, January 2018.
8 Erin Mazursky, ‘The rules have changed: How to build a “movement of movements” in the US’, Medium, 22 November 2016.
9 Fashion Revolution mission statement, fashionrevolution.org.
10 Death toll estimates vary wildly, from half a million to eight million. See Yongyi Song, ‘Chronology of mass killings during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976)’, Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, Center for International Studies and Research, Paris, 25 August 2011.
11 ‘Sweep away all monsters’, Peking Review, vol. 9, no. 23, 3 June 1966.
12 Lucy Siegle, ‘Fashion still doesn’t give a damn about the deaths of garment workers’, The Guardian, 5 May 2013.
13 Quoted in ibid.
14 Livia Firth, ‘The Oscars 2010’, Eco-age.com (blog).
15 Sarah Ditty et. al., Fashion Transparency Index 2017, Fashion Revolution, UK, 2017, p.4.
16 ‘Statement from Kalpona Akter on the collapse of a building in Bangladesh,’ Jobs for Justice, 24 April 2013.
17 Kalpona Akter, interview with author, Sydney, April 2017.
18 Ibid.
5: Three ways to be an activist
1 Cathy Otten, With Ash on their Faces: Yezidi women and the Islamic State, OR Books, New York, 2017, extract accessed here: www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/25/slaves-of-isis-the-long-walk-of-the-yazidi-women.
2 Amanda Foreman, phone interview with author, January 2018.
3 Kimberlé Crenshaw, ‘The Urgency of Intersectionality’, TEDWomen, October 2016.
4 Kimberlé Crenshaw, ‘Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A Black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics’, The University of Chicago Legal Forum, no.140, 1989, pp. 139–67.
5 Reni Eddo-Lodge in a video interview with Foyles booksellers, 30 May 2007, accessed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vJZdeSqfFY.
6 Accessed here: resistanceschoolberkeley.org/session-1/.
7 Saru Jayaraman, Behind the Kitchen Door, ILR Press, Ithaca, NY, p.2.
8 Saru Jayaraman, interview with KCET, 5 March 2013, accessed here: www.kcet.org/food/an-interview-with-saru-jayaraman.
9 Ibid.
10 Jayaraman, Behind the Kitchen Door, Foreword, p.x.
11 Tarana Burke on 7.30, ABC TV, 19 October 2017.
6: We stand with you
1 Cara Buckley, ‘Powerful women in Hollywood unveil anti-harassment action plan’, New York Times, 1 January 2018.
2 Ashley Judd on HARDtalk, BBC TV, 15 January 2018.
3 Rashida Jones, during a Time’s Up panel discussion at the Makers 2018 conference, 5 February 2018, accessed here: www.theroot.com/watch-rashida-jones-says-metoo-and-time-s-up-must-be-1822777066.
4 Rose McGowan, Brave, HQ, New York, 2018, p.224.
5 According to Tina Tchen, the lawyer heading up the Times Up Legal Defense Fund, which is housed at the National Women’s Law Center, in an interview with CNN, 1 March 2018.
6 Quoted in Emma Brockes, ‘Me too founder, Tarana Burke: “You have to use your privilege to serve other people”’, Observer, 15 January 2018.
7 Statement accessed here: amysmartgirls.com/advocates-activists-for-gender-racial-justice-join-actresses-at-tonights-goldenglobes-e98c926865b3.
8 Access Hollywood red carpet interview, accessed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DdSSjp4Z8k.
9 Quoted in Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, ‘Amy Poehler advocated for restaurant workers’ rights at Midtown rally’, Eater New York, 21 February 2018.
10 Ai-jen Poo, ‘I was Meryl Streep’s “plus one” at the Golden Globes’, Cosmopolitan, 10 January 2018.
11 Ai-jen Poo, interview on the Business of Giving podcast, 22 January 2018.
12 Rosa Parks, interviewed April 1956 on Pacifica radio station KPFA, accessed here: www.democracynow.org/2005/10/25/rosa_parks_1913_2005_we_air.
13 Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins, Rosa Parks: My story, Dial Books, New York, 1992, p.116.
14 Doreen St Félix, ‘The Fever Dream of Oprah for President’, The New Yorker, 9 January 2018.
15 Eva Peyser, ‘I can’t believe I have to explain why Oprah shouldn’t be president’, Vice, 9 January 2018.
16 Winfrey dismissed this idea in an interview; see Laura Brown, ‘O That’s Good’, InStyle, March 2018.
17 Alyssa Milano, ‘My comment on the Harvey Weinstein scandal’, Patriot Not Partisan, 9 October 2017.
18 Tarana Burke on The Call podcast, January 2018.
19 Tarana Burke, ‘The Inception’, Just Be Inc, accessed here: justbeinc.wixsite.com/justbeinc/the-me-too-movement-cmml.
20 Quoted in Sandra E. Garcia, ‘The woman who created #metoo long before hashtags’, The New York Times, 20 October 2017.
21 Edward Felsenthal, ‘Behind the scenes of TIME’s Person of the Year 2017’, TIME, 6 December 2017.
22 Stephanie Zacharek, Eliana Dockterman & Haley Sweetland Edwards, ‘The Silence Breakers’, TIME, December 2017.
23 Chris Hemmings, ‘Not all men are guilty of violence and sexism, but all men have a responsibility to stop those crimes’, The Telegraph (UK), 4 September 2017.
24 Rose McGowan in her five-part documentary series, Citizen Rose.
25 Donald Trump tweet, 15 October 2016, accessed here: twitter.com/realdonald/trump/status/787244543003467776?lang=en.
26 Tara Moss, email interview with author, January 2018.
27 Zachary Cohen, ‘From fellow solder to monster in uniform: #metoo in the military’, CNN, 7 February 2018.
28 Leta Hong Fincher, ‘China is attempting to muzzle #MeToo’, NPR, 1 February 2018, accessed here: www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/02/01/582167268/china-is-attempting-to-muzzle-metoo.
7: Green piece
1 Monica Rhor, ‘Me Too founder Tarana Burke on how the movement began’, Houston Chronicle, 8 December 2017.
2 Cameron Russell, Skype interview with author, January 2018.
3 According to the World Bank, 40 per cent of productive land is projected to be lost in the southern region of Bangladesh as a result of a 65-centimetre sea-level rise by the 2080s. About twenty million people in the coastal areas of Bangladesh are already affected by salinity in drinking water. Rising sea levels and more intense cyclones and storm surges could intensify the contamination of groundwater and surface water, causing more diarrhoea outbreaks.
4 Quoted in Becky Chung, ‘From supermodel to managing editor: How Cameron Russell’s TED Talk inspired her to start a magazine’, TED blog, 12 August 2014.
5 Doug Struck, ‘Burning river reborn—how Cleveland saved the Cuyahoga—and itself’, Christian Science Monitor, 8 August 2017.
6 Gaylord Nelson, interview with Dr Randy Champeau, Director of the Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education, 1990, accessed here: eeinwisconsin.org/resource/about.aspx?s=96170.0.0.2209.
7 The proposal was from Fred Dutton, one of JFK’s assistant secretaries of state, who suggested bringing in famous people like Jacques Cousteau and Jesse Jackson to add legitimacy. Memo accessed here: www.nelsonearthday.net/collection/earthday-draft.php.
8 Denis Hayes, first Earth Day national co-ordinator, speaking in Washington at the 40th event in 2010.
9 Gaylord Nelson, speech to Earth Day rally, 22 April 1970, accessed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3RCPAtmpv8&list=PL3480E41AA956A42B&index=2.
10 Joseph Lelyveld, ‘Millions join Earth Day observances across the nation’, The New York Times, 23 April 1970.
11 Walter Cronkite on CBS News, accessed here: www.earthday.org/about/the-history-of-earth-day/.
12 Brentin Mock, ‘Are there two different versions of environmentalist, one “white”, one “black”?’ Grist, 31 July 2014.
13 Nicole Smith Dahmen et al., ‘The overwhelming whiteness of US environmentalism is hobbling the fight against climate change’, Quartz, 4 January 2017.
14 Quoted in Jason Mark, ‘Naomi Klein: Big green groups are more damaging than climate deniers’, The Guardian, 11 September 2013.
15 Lornett Vestal, ‘The unbearable whiteness of hiking and how to solve it’, Sierra Club blog, 7 December 2016.
16 David George Haskell, The Songs of Trees: Stories from nature’s great connectors, Black Inc., Melbourne, 2017, pp. 172–3.
17 Quoted in Mele-Ane Havea, ‘Amelia Telford is protecting country’, Dumbo Feather, third quarter 2017, no. 52.
8: The rise of the climate movement
1 Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2014.
2 John McQuaid, ‘Mining the mountains’, Smithsonian, January 2009.
3 Matthew R.V. Ross, Brian L. McGlynn & Emily S. Bernhardt, ‘Deep impact: Effects of mountaintop mining on surface topography, bedrock structure, and downstream waters’, Environmental Science and Technology, 22 January 2016.
4 Tim Flannery, The Weather Makers, Text, Melbourne, 2005, p.177.
5 Laurent C.M. Lebreton, Stochastic analysis of deep sea oil spill trajectories in the Great Australian Bight, Wilderness Society South Australia, Adelaide, 2015.
6 Dominic C. DiGiulio & Robert B. Jackson, ‘Impact to underground sources of drinking water and domestic wells from production well stimulation and completion practices in the Pavillion, Wyoming, Field’, Environmental Science and Technology, vol.50, no. 8, 2016, pp. 4524–36.
7 Chris Burn, ‘Theresa May: Fracking across Yorkshire will be financially beneficial for communities’, The Yorkshire Post, 23 February 2018.
8 Klein, This Changes Everything, p. 143.
9 Based on global emissions for 2010; see IPCC, Climate Change 2014: Impacts, adaption and vulnerability, Working Group II Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2014.
10 Flannery, The Weather Makers, p. 5.
11 James Hansen et al., ‘Target atmospheric CO2: Where should humanity aim?’, The Open Atmosphere Science Journal, vol.2, 2008, pp. 217–31.
12 International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook Executive Summary, 2011.
13 Parag Khanna, ‘The world 4 degrees warmer,’ New Scientist, 5 September 2009.
14 Australian IPCC scientist Joëlle Gergis points out that Khanna is not a scientist, and that CISRO cites projections that are much less dramatic.
15 IPCC, Climate Change 2014.
16 Tim Flannery, Atmosphere of Hope, Text, Melbourne, 2015, p.156.
17 David George Haskell, The Songs of Trees: Stories from nature’s great connectors, Penguin Random House, New York, 2017, p.56.
18 Hansen, ‘Target Atmospheric CO2’, p.1.
19 Matt Lodder, ‘I protested at Tate Britain because we can’t ignore the gallery’s controversial relationship with BP any longer’, Independent, 29 November 2015.
20 ‘NASA study finds carbon emissions could dramatically increase risk of US mega-droughts’, NASA press release, 13 February 2015.
21 Z. Leviston, M. Greenhill & I. Walker, Australian Attitudes to Climate Change and Adaptation: 2010–2014, CSIRO, Australia, 2015.
22 Lesley Hughes on 7.30, November 2014.
23 Lesley Head, ‘Grief will be our companion in climate change’, lesleyhead.com blog, 21 August 2016.
24 Clive Hamilton, Earthmasters: Playing God with the climate, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2013, p. 162.
25 Joe Duggan, telephone interview with author, December 2017.
26 Leviston, Greenhill & Walker, Australian attitudes to climate change and adaptation.
27 May Boeve, interview with author, Sydney, December 2017.
28 Jeremy Hodges, ‘Electric cars might be cheaper than gas guzzlers in 7 years’, Bloomberg, 22 March 2018.
29 International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2017, IEA, Paris, 2017.
30 Peter Erickson et al., ‘Effect of subsidies to fossil fuel companies on United States crude oil production’, Nature Energy, vol.2, 2017, pp.891–8.
31 Quoted from the Complaint for Public Nuisance filed on behalf of the People of the State of California, 19 September 2017, accessed here: www.sfcityattorney.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017-09-19-File-Stamped-Complaint-for-Public-Nuisance.pdf.
32 Bill McKibben, ‘Global warming’s terrifying new math’, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2012.
33 Bill McKibben in Do The Math (documentary), written and directed by Kelly Nyks & Jared P. Scott, PF Pictures, New York, 2013.
34 Bill McKibben, The End of Nature, 2nd edition, Random House, New York, 2006, p.20.
35 McKibben in Do The Math.
36 Boeve, interview with author, Sydney, November, 2017.
37 May Boeve, ‘Trump has declared war on our climate—we won’t let him win’, The Hill, 6 February 2018.
38 Grant Jacobsen, ‘The Al Gore effect: An Inconvenient Truth and voluntary carbon offsets’, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, vol. 61, no. 1, January 2011, pp.67–78.
39 Quoted in Robert Collier, ‘Global warming activists try to stir Americans to change’, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 March 2007.
40 Bill McKibben, ‘The power of the click’, Los Angeles Times, 16 October 2007.
41 Brady Dennis, ‘How is this weekend’s climate march different from its predecessor?’, The Washington Post, 27 April 2017.
9: Fight Club
1 Breana Macpherson-Rice, interview with author, Sydney, December 2017.
2 @realDonaldTrump tweet accessed here: twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/266259787405225984.
3 Elizabeth Morley, interview with author, Sydney, December 2017.
4 Breana Macpherson-Rice, ‘I stood up for real action on climate change and now I’m going to court’, Junkee, 8 September 2016.
5 Aiofe Nicklason, ‘Why I disrobed for divestment,’ fossilfreemu.org, 26 April 2016.
6 Bob Brown, ‘The Adani mine is this generation’s Franklin River. People power can stop it’, The Guardian, 24 March 2017.
7 Lise Mellor, Brown, Robert James, Sydney Medical School Online Museum and Archive, University of Sydney, Sydney, 2008.
8 Bob Brown in the film The Wild Franklin River, directed by Chris Noone, Stacey Gavrily and Michael Cordell, Wombat Films, 1980.
9 Bob Brown, interview with Martin Clark, Melbourne Law School, 24 July 2013, accessed here: cpb-ap-se2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.unimelb.edu.au/dist/2/77/files/2013/07/Remembering-Tasmanian-Dams-Interview-Transcripts3.pdf.
10 Quoted in Bill Griffiths, ‘How archaeology helped save the Franklin River’, The Conversation, 2 March 2018.
11 Brown, ‘The Adani mine’.
12 Several 2017 polls confirm this, including a ReachTEL survey commissioned by the Stop Adani Alliance, and a Roy Morgan SMS survey, both conducted in October 2017. Three-quarters of those polled by another ReachTEL survey commissioned by GetUp! in January 2017 did not think lending government money to Adani was a good idea.
13 In Charlie Peel, ‘Prospect of vigilante action against Adani protestors has Bowen police worried’, The Australian, 23 January 2018.
14 Adani Mining CEO Jeyakumar Janakaraj, interviewed by Mining Global magazine, April 2015.
15 Quoted in Rod Campbell, ‘Fact check: Will Adani’s coal mine really boost employment by 10,000 jobs?’, The Australian, 31 August 2015.
16 The council’s statement on the proposed mine, ‘Stop Adani destroying our land and culture’, can be accessed here: wanganjagalingou.com.au/our-fight/.
17 See the NSW Minerals Council website, accessed here : www.nswmining.com.au/environment/rehabilitation-mine-closure.
18 Adam Walters, The Hole Truth: The mess coal companies plan to leave in NSW, commissioned by Hunter Communities Network, Energy & Resources Insights, Sydney, 2016, p.10.
19 Ibid., p. 6.
20 AnneMaree McLoughlin, speech outside Newcastle EPA, 20 February 2017, quoted in Scott Bevan, ‘Hunter mine noise protest clamours to be heard’, Newcastle Herald, 20 February 2017.
21 George Tlaskal, personal submission regarding Warkworth Coal Mine and Mount Thorley Coal Mines Continuation Project, 4 August 2014, accessed here: www.huntervalleyprotectionalliance.com/pdf/WARKW_Continuation_GT20140804.pdf.
22 Ibid.
23 George Tlaskal, Submission to PAC regarding Warkworth Coal Mine and Mount Thorley Coal Mines Continuation Project, 10 December 2014, accessed via www.pac.nsw.gov.au.
24 Quoted in Shannon Dan, ‘Aboriginal elders acquitted of criminal charges’, Singleton Argus, 2 June 2017.
25 Catherine Clifford, ‘Broke’s powerless protectors’, Newcastle Herald, 29 May 2015.
26 Alan Jones, speech to the Lockyer Valley Ratepayers Association, 9 November 2014.
27 Drew Hutton, in ‘Lock me away’, Australian Story, ABC TV, 4 August 2014.
28 Ibid.
29 Quoted in Joanne McCarthy, ‘Wollar resident Bev Smiles faces jail as one of the first to be charged under new anti-coal-protest laws’, Newcastle Herald, 14 April 2017.
10: Youthquake
1 Joel Stein, ‘Millennials: The Me Me Me Generation’, TIME, May 2013.
2 Logan Casey, ‘Minding the generation gap: Investigating media portrayal of millennials and Gen Z’, The New York Times, 31 October 2016.
3 Derrick Feldmann, Amy Thayer & Melissa Wall, The 2017 Millennial Impact Report: Phase 1: Millennial dialogue on the landscape of cause engagement and social issues, Achieve, West Palm Beach, FL, 2017, p.ii.
4 Jeff Fromm, ‘Gen Z is on the rise, here is what you need to know’, Forbes, 4 January 2017.
5 Morgan O’ Donnell, ‘Millennials: The new face of activism’, Odyssey, 12 October 2015.
6 Jeremy Heimans & Henry Timms, ‘Understanding “New Power”’, Harvard Business Review, December 2014.
7 Xiuhtezcatl Martinez in Kid Warrior: The Xiuhtezcatl Martinez story, accessed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_EK_9m1H88.
8 Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, ‘Hip-hop environmental activism’, TEDxYouth, May 2014.
9 Itzcuauhtli Martinez, quoted in From Silence into Action, accessed here: www.climatesilencenow.org/about.html.
10 Mark Ruffalo, ‘11-year-old demands climate action with vow of silence pledge’, Eco Watch, 10 December 2014.
11 Organisers expected 500,000 and claim 800,000 turned up. CBS news reports 202,796 (with a margin of error of 15 per cent) on the advice of Digital Design & Imaging Service, a company that specialises in aerial photography and visual impact studies; however, this company underestimates the numbers at the Women’s Marches by almost half. Bustle reports there were roughly half the number of Metro rides in Washington, DC on the day of March for Our Lives compared with the day of the Women’s Marches.
12 Eric Levitz, ‘There is no epidemic of mass shootings’, New York magazine, 1 March 2018.
13 Jugal Patel, ‘After Sandy Hook more than 400 people have been shot in over 200 school shootings’, The New York Times, 15 February 2018.
14 Ali Watkins, John Ismay, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, ‘Once banned, now loved and loathed: How the AR-15 became “America’s Rifle”’, The New York Times, 3 March 2018.
15 Quoted in Emily Witt, ‘How the survivors of Parkland founded the Never Again movement’, The New Yorker, 19 February 2018.
16 Jaclyn Corin, ‘I helped organise the March for Our Lives because there is strength in numbers’, Seventeen, 21 March 2018.
17 Dave Cullen, ‘Inside the secret meme lab designed to propel #NeverAgain beyond the march’, Vanity Fair, 22 March 2018.
18 Corin, ‘I helped organise the March for Our Lives’.
19 David Hogg, on CNN, 18 February 2018.
20 Quoted in Charlotte Atler, ‘The school shooting generation has had enough’, TIME, 22 March 2018.
21 Cullen, ‘Inside the secret meme lab’.
22 Generation Nation: Redefining America’s Boomers, X-ers, Millennials and Gen Z in Post-Obama America, Collaborata study, 2017.
23 Cameron Kasky on MSNBC, 14 March 2018.
24 Giuliana Matamoros and Lyliah Skinner, interviewed in ‘Why they march: Four best friends from Parkland explain why the march matters to them’, New York magazine video interview, accessed here: www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL4B448958847DA6FB&time_continue=1&v=0Eenp9fkf-k.
25 ibid.
26 Cameron Kasky, speech at March for Our Lives rally, Washington, DC, 24 March 2018.
27 Anna Rose, interview with author, Sydney, January 2018.
28 Amanda McKenzie, interview with author, Heron Island, September 2017.
11: SOS—Save Our Seas
1 Lucy Cormack, ‘Climate-driven migration of tropical fish linked to underwater deforestation’, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 July 2014.
2 C. Le Quéré et al., ‘The global carbon budget 1959–2011’, Earth System Science Data, vol.5, , 2013, pp. 165–85.
3 Tim Flannery, Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for solutions to the climate crisis, Text Melbourne, 2015, pp. 35–6.
4 Kirsten Isensee & Louis Valdes, Ocean Acidification, Global Sustainable Development Report 2015 Brief, UNESCO, Paris, 2015.
5 Sophie Dove, presentation to group, Heron Island, September 2017.
6 David Helvarg, ‘A wave of ocean activism to hit D.C.’, National Geographic blog, 8 April 2017.
7 Quoted in Medhavi Arora, ‘From filthy to fabulous: Mumbai beach undergoes dramatic makeover’, CNN, 22 May 2017.
8 Afroz Shah, in a UN video interview recorded to celebrate his Champion of the Earth 2016 award, 2 February 2017, accessed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnALkpJ89zo.
9 Ibid.
10 Tim Silverwood, interview with author, Sydney, January 2018.
11 Chris Tyree & Dan Morrison, ‘Invisibles, the plastic inside us’, Orb Media, September 2017.
12: The anti-plastics movement
1 David de Rothschild, speech at the Pop Tech 2010 conference, May 2011, accessed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae3ka4Ze7zI.
2 Charles Moore, ‘Trash revisited: Across the Pacific Ocean, plastics, plastics everywhere’, Natural History, November 2003.
3 Charles Moore et al., ‘A comparison of plastic and plankton in the North Pacific Central Gyre’, Marine Pollution Bulletin, vol.42, no. 12, December 2001, pp.1297–300.
4 Quoted in Richard Grant, ‘David de Rothschild interview: Adventure capital’, Telegraph (UK), 7 April 2014.
5 David de Rothschild, ‘The Plastiki’, The Wall Street Journal, 23 January 2013.
6 Richard Grant, ‘David de Rothschild interview: Adventure capital’, Telegraph (UK), 7 April 2014.
7 Matthew Taylor, ‘$180bn investment in plastic factories feeds global packaging binge’, The Guardian, 26 December 2017.
8 ‘ExxonMobil begins production on new polyethylene line at Mont Belvieu plastics plant’, ExxonMobil press release, 17 October 2017, accessed here: news.exxonmobil.com/press-release/exxonmobil-begins-production-new-polyethylene-line-mont-belvieu-plastics-plant.
9 World Economic Forum, Ellen MacArthur Foundation and McKinsey & Company, The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the future of plastics, 2016, accessed here: www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/publications.
10 Tim Silverwood, interview with author, Sydney, January 2018.
11 Tim Silverwood, ‘Beach of shame’, Plastic Soup News, 30 June 2011.
12 Tim Silverwood, ‘Plastic Beach’, Coastalwatch.com, 14 October 2011.
13 Rebecca Prinze-Ruiz, telephone interview with author, July 2017.
13: Zero waste
1 Erin Rhoads, interview with author, Melbourne, February 2018.
2 Vidhi Doshi, ‘Burn it, dissolve it, eat it: Is the solution to India’s waste problem in the bag?’, The Guardian, 2 March 2016.
3 Paromita Shastri, ‘Storm in a kulhar’, Outlook India, 2 August 2004.
4 Akira Sakano, ‘Zero waste: A way to enrich your life and the society’, TEDxAPU, February 2017.
5 Quoted in Doroti Kiss, ‘Life in a zero waste city: An interview with Akira Sakano’, Better World International blog, 4 May 2016.
6 Quoted in Cherise Fong, ‘Kamikatsu: The Japanese village of almost zero waste’, Makery, 13 June 2017.
7 Ariana Schwartz, ‘Zero waste FAQs’, Paris to Go blog.
8 Béa Johnson on CNN, April 2012.
9 Isabelle Chapman, ‘Zero waste isn’t just for hippies anymore’, CNN, 7 December 2017.
10 ‘Where are all the male zero wasters?’ Reddit, accessed here: www.reddit.com/r/ZeroWaste/comments/6fve1d/where_are_all_the_male_zero_wasters/.
11 Bridget Brennan, ‘Top 10 things everyone should know about women consumers’, Forbes, 12 January 2015.
12 Kate Weiner, ‘Low-waste living as activism’, Loam, 7 December 2017.
13 Leilani Clark, ‘Zero-waste bloggers: The millennials who can fit a year’s worth of trash in a jar’, The Guardian, 22 April 2016.
14 Adam Minter, Junkyard Planet: Travels in the billion-dollar trash trade, Kindle edition, Bloomsbury, New York, 2013, Kindle locations 220–1.
15 Ibid. Kindle locations 227–8.
16 Ibid. Kindle locations 132–4.
14: Let’s build a tiny house!
1 Amanda Chapman, interview with author, Auckland, January 2018.
2 From ‘Blasting through the past with architect and tiny house grandfather Lester Walker’, The Tiny House Podcast, series 1, episode 26, no date.
3 Julie Lasky, ‘The surprising origins of the tiny house phenomenon’, Curbed, 13 July 2016.
4 Quotes from Henry D. Thoreau, Walden, accessed via the Thoreau Institute website, walden.org.
5 Adam Verwymeren, ‘Interview with Jay Shafer’, Networx, 2 January 2012.
15: Rejecting money
1 Quoted in Luke Cooper, ‘Australians throw away nearly $10 billion in food waste each year’, Huffpost Australia, 24 October 2017.
2 Luke Leitch, ‘Anarchy in the UK: Vivienne Westwood’s son Joe Corre burns $6 million of his punk archive in London’, Vogue.com, 28 November 2016.
3 Gerrard Winstanley, The True Levellers Standard Advanced, 1649, accessed here: www.rogerlovejoy.co.uk/philosophy/diggers/diggers2.htm.
4 Excerpt from the film Les Diggers des San Francisco, accessed here: www.diggers.org/rap_on_free_store.htm.
5 Peter Coyote, ‘Free frame of reference’, petercoyote.com.
6 Jacques Fresco, The Best that Money Can’t Buy: Beyond politics, poverty and war, Global Cyber-Visions, Venus, FL, 2002, p.34.
7 Elie, ‘Vicki Rovere’s free store still a late night attraction on Ludlow after 15 years’, Bowery Boogie, 21 May 2015.
8 Tracie McMillan, ‘The new face of hunger’, National Geographic, no date.
9 Andew Barker, interview with author, Adelaide, March 2018.
10 Quoted in Melissa Fyfe & Royce Miller, ‘What they do to food’, The Age, 9 June 2012.
11 Andrew Barker, ‘Free food for all: Give what you can, take what you need’, TEDxAdelaide, October 2017.
16: Consumerism gone mad
1 ‘Boxing Day shoppers queue from before dawn—only to find no sales’, ABC News Breakfast, 26 December 2017, ABC TV, accessed here: www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-26/boxing-day-sales-shoppers-find-no-discounts-after-queueing/9285680.
2 Larry Knight, ‘Why holiday shopping is so important for the US economy’, CBS News, 28 November 2016.
3 According to a 2018 creditcards.com survey, accessed here: www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/debt-free-living-survey.php.
4 Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, Quarterly Authorised Deposit-Taking Institution Property Exposures: September 2017, APRA, Sydney, 2017.
5 KPMG, The Truth about Online Consumers, 2017 Global Online Consumer Report, KPMG, 2017, p. 2.
6 George Monbiot, ‘Materialism: a system that eats us from the inside out’, The Guardian, 10 December 2013.
7 Ellen MacArthur Foundation, A New Textiles Economy: Redesigning fashion’s future, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2017, p.18.
8 Alden Wicker, ‘Fast fashion is creating an environmental crisis’, Newsweek, 1 September 2016.
9 Joseph Stiglitz, ‘The great GDP swindle’, The Guardian, 13 September 2009.
10 Jacinda Ardern speaking to The Nation, Three (NZ), 21 October 2017.
11 Richard Denniss, Curing Affluenza, Kindle edition, Black Inc., Melbourne, 2017, Kindle locations 679–81.
12 World Bank, Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016: Taking on inequality, World Bank, Washington, DC, 2016, p. 1.
13 Ibid.
14 Deborah Hardoon, An Economy for the 99%: It’s time to build a human economy that benefits everyone, not just the privileged few, Oxfam Briefing Paper, Oxford, January 2017.
15 Bill Gates, speaking to CNN, 18 February 2018.
16 Hardoon, An Economy for the 99%, p. 2.
17 Tim Jackson, speaking to Network of Wellbeing, accessed here: www.networkofwellbeing.org/index.php/videos/post/tim-jackson-a-wellbeing-economy-could-give-government-renewed-sense-of-purp.
18 Denniss, Curing Affluenza, Kindle locations 238–40.
19 Stiglitz, ‘The great GDP swindle’.
20 Elisabeth Rosenthal, ‘Your biggest carbon sin may be air travel’, The New York Times, 26 January 2013.
21 Ellen MacArthur, ‘The surprising thing I learned sailing solo around the world’, TED2015, 29 June 2015.
22 Ellen MacArthur, interview with author, Copenhagen, May 2018.
23 Michael Braungart & William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things, Vintage, London, 2009, p. 26.
24 William McDonough, interview with author, Copenhagen, May 2018.
25 In April 2017, The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy debuted as both a book and a film, produced by Vice and accessed here: /impact.vice.com/en_us/article/bj5zaq/watch-vices-new-documentary-the-third-industrial-revolution-a-radical-new-sharing-economy.
26 Ibid.
17: Meet the minimalists
1 Joshua Becker, becomingminimalist.com.
2 Leo Babauta, ‘The minimalist question is the important thing’, accessed here: mnmlist.com/question.
3 Richard Denniss, interview with author, Sydney, November 2017.
4 Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus, ‘Day 11: Trash’, Our 21-Day Journey into Minimalism, accessed here: theminimalists.com.
5 Marie Kondo, The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese art of de-cluttering, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, Calif., 2014, pp.1–2.
18: What’s the alternative?
1 Kate Hall, interview with author, Auckland, January 2018.
2 According to ‘Australian Attitudes to Composting and Recycling’, a 2013 Closed Loop recycling survey.
3 Michael Reynolds quote from an interview with The Good Stuff, accessed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj5NO32ahB0&t=141s.
4 Lucy Aitken Read, interview with author, New Zealand, January 2018.
19: On mindfulness
1 Christine Wamsler, ‘How mindfulness can help the shift towards a more sustainable society’, The Conversation, 29 June 2017.