Alice Aedy is a documentary photographer, film-maker and activist. Jack Harries is a documentary film-maker and environmental activist who has built an online platform of over 5 million people raising awareness of the climate emergency. 

Together, Alice and Jack, are co-founders of Earthrise, a platform dedicated to empowering and galvanising the next generation of climate activists into long term, sustained action- they have both played a central role in putting the climate emergency on the news and political agenda for the first time in the UK. 

The challenges that humankind face as a result of the climate crisis are unprecedented. All the science states that unless we act urgently and radically to change the way we are living on Earth we will speed towards the mass extinction of life on this planet as we know it. Coming into true acceptance of the enormity of this is as existentially overwhelming as anything could possibly be and the consequence for many who do, involves the onset of a relatively newly recognised, yet very commonly experienced form of ‘grief,’ called Climate Grief: a grief for all that has already been lost on earth and the dread for the certain loss of all life on earth as we know it, if action is not taken. It is now broadly recognised that human beings are going to have to learn, both collectively and individually to manage, and tend to, this grief as a part of driving one of the most important movements for change in the history of humankind. As we hear so boldly in this episode, tending to the darkness of our feelings is an integral part of activism, it is what enables us to keep the fire of relentless hope burning bright. So if the world is feeling like a dark or difficult place, join us and let your heart be ignited by the fire of the human spirit. 



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