Price
- Free
Length
- 90
In conversation with Matt Sowerby
VENUE: Margaret Fell Lecture Theatre, Lancaster University
*Booking essential
Children of the Anthropocene
In partnership with Lancaster University, Litfest is delighted to welcome leading environmental campaigner and author Bella Lack to give the 2025 Lancaster Environment Lecture.
‘What’s the point in profit on a dead planet?’ - Bella Lack, Guardian interview, August 2022
Drawing on her book Children of the Anthropocene, Bella Lack recounts urgent stories of the lives of diverse young people on the frontlines of the environmental crisis around the world, and shows how, across the planet, the futures of young people hang in the balance as they face the harsh realities of the environmental crisis. Advocating for the protection of both people and the planet, Bella restores the beating heart to global environmental issues, from air pollution, to deforestation and over-consumption by telling the stories of those most directly affected – the children of the Anthropocene.
Bella Lack is a conservationist and environmental activist and author of The Children of Anthropocene. She co-founded Reserva Youth Land Trust in 2020, which has projects in Ecuador, Colombia and Panama, and in 2021 she presented the documentary ANIMAL, with Jane Goodall, directed by Cyril Dion.
Matt Sowerby is a climate writer and activist, working to find hopeful approaches to living in a climate crisis. His essay 'Hope is the thing with flippers' won the international 2024 Nature Chronicles Prize. He is also the Programmes Lead at The Resilience Project, a youth-led non-profit helping young climate changemakers find their peace, their power and their people.
