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  • Published: 8 April 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241992739
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

Why Rebel




A blazing call-to-arms for living a life in rebellion, inspired by the author's unshakeable, deep-rooted love for our planet

Why rebel?

Because our footprint on the Earth has never mattered more than now. How we treat it, in the spirit of gift or of theft, has never been more important.

Because we need a politics of kindness, but the very opposite is on the rise. Libertarian fascism, with its triumphal brutalism, its racism and misogyny - a politics that loathes the living world.

Because nature is not a hobby. It is the life on which we depend, as Indigenous societies have never forgotten.

Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars, and they are lining up now to write rebellion across the skies.

  • Published: 8 April 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241992739
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

About the author

Jay Griffiths

Jay Griffiths' writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the Guardian, the Observer, The Ecologist and Resurgence magazine, of which she is an associate editor.

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Praise for Why Rebel

There is just one question left today for all writers. What would Nature say to us if Nature had a voice? I know of nobody who is facing up to that question with more honesty, courage and commitment than Jay Griffiths

John Ashton, independent activist and former UK Climate Change Ambassador