While we applaud the jury for recognising these women’s solid defence for taking such action and following their conscience, a collective act of madness is going unchecked both in the UK and across the globe. Those standing up in defence of life on Earth are being criminalised by the UK legal system, while our own government willingly continues to facilitate the destruction of our only home.

It is heartbreaking to see the impact of inaction as the crisis unravels everywhere. Record floods have left the Greek breadbasket wrecked for years to come; Winters in South America are disappearing as heat waves cook the oceans and the monsoon season reaches a critical tipping point, which could result in up to 30% less rainfall and have a frightening impact on food production; Canadian wildfires which ravaged the Northern Territories this summer, are calming only now; New York City experienced a state of emergency from flooding during the same week that floods in Libya left an estimated 20,000 dead, parents tragically searching the beaches there for the bodies of their children. People the world over are sharing in a collective grief as nowhere is left untouched.

Signatures Dr. Rowan Williams (Former Archbishop of Canterbury) Emma Thompson (Actor and screenwriter) Es Devlin (Artist/stage designer) Ben Okri (Author) Juliet Stevenson (Actor) Helen Pankhurst (Women’s rights activist and great-granddaughter of Suffragette, Emmeline Pankhurst) Sir David King (Former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government from 2000-2007 and head of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group) Professor James Hansen (Directing Professor of the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions of the Earth Institute at Columbia University) Andrea Arnold (Academy award-winning Filmmaker) Brian Eno (Musician/composer/producer) Stephen Fry (Actor/Author) Adam McKay (Academy award-winning Film Director) Thom Yorke (Musician, Radiohead) Ed O’Brien (Musician, Radiohead) Bella Freud (Fashion designer) Alan Moore (Author) Mira Awad (Musician/actor) Kumi Naidoo (Payne distinguished lecturer at Stanford University / Former CEO of Greenpeace International and Secretary General of Amnesty International) Ash Sarkar (Journalist)