Lily Cole on climate change: why does money trump long-term thinking?
When did the climate change campaign start for you?
I think it was a fairly gradual process. It wasn't something I connected with when I was younger. Maybe it was some sort of lack of empathy, but I wasn't able to relate to it. And then round about 16 or 17, I not only started travelling more, getting more of an appreciation for nature, I also simultaneously started learning more about the science around climate change. And the combination of falling in love with nature, with the realisation that there was a genuine threat to the natural world as we know it, kind of worked together. It went from being an issue that I wasn't really that engaged with at all, to being probably the one I thought was the most important to try and address in some way - and continue to think is the most important.
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