Climate heros
Anyone who is fighting against the ecological crisis could be deemed a hero, if you are wondering how to find them check our green advocacy directory. However, there have been some who are so committed that they have ended in jail...
Australia
Street teams
FireProof Australia
- Andy George - arrested in early April 2022 for pitch invasion, serving a 3 month jail sentence.
- Sergio Herbert - on bail appealing a 1 year sentence, climbed on top of a coal train, sat on the coal and live streamed his protest on Facebook.
Industrial teams
- Max Curmi - climbed a 60-metre crane during a week of protests (late March 2022) organised by Blockade Australia, a group dedicated to disrupting supply chains to protest the Australian government's inaction on climate change.
- Juliet Lamont - 50-year-old documentary film-maker, was given a one-month term of imprisonment suspended for nine months for locking herself to a train carrying the first coal from Adani’s mine.
Advertising
- Kyle Magee (see Figure 1.) has been convicted over 30 times and jailed on 6 separate occasions for blanking out billboards follows the earlier anti smoking BUGAUP movement in the 70's and works with the international group called the Subvertisers. Most recently jumped on a Adani coal train and started shovelling coal out of the carriage stopping Adani’s coal train for more than 20 hours, charged with fraud has written widely about anti advertising activism and writes a blog about the issues associated with for-profit advertising.
Climate advocacy
These are groups of people that have not yet been to jail however they are supportive of the cause.
Legal
Teenagers Laura Kirwin, Izzy Raj-Seppings, Ava Princi and Liv Heaton tried to stop the expansion of a coal mine by legal reinforcing the fact that Australia’s environment minister had a duty to protect younger people against climate change. This was subsequently overturned by the Australian Courts in 2022.
Influencers
News weather presenters are apparently the most highly trusted professionals on climate.[1]
Investors
Saul Griffith
Australian-American inventor, entrepreneur and engineer and adviser to US president Joe Biden on energy.[2]
Mike Cannon Brookes
Climate 200 was bankrolled by tech billionaire Mike Cannon Brookes and Melbourne University Climate and Energy College adviser Simon Holmes à Court.
Mitchell Hopwood
Uses Climate Outcomes Foundation to fund pro climate action politicians.
Robert and Sandra Purves
Tasmania
Bob Brown
Bob Brown funds a non-profit Foundation which promotes the protection and enhancement of, and the provision of information and education about: The wild and scenic beauty of Tasmania. The ecological integrity of Australia.[3]
United States
On April 22, 2022, climate activist Wynn Alan Bruce set himself on fire in the plaza of the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C. The fatal self-immolation, which took place on Earth Day as a protest against the climate crisis.