Author walks out of Edinburgh book festival over sponsor’s fossil fuel links
by Emily Dugan from World news | The Guardian on (#6DT6N)
Activist Mikaela Loach staged protest over investment firm's bankrolling' of the climate crisis
A leading climate crisis author has staged a walkout at the Edinburgh international book festival in protest at its sponsor's links to fossil fuel companies.
The author and climate activist Mikaela Loach interrupted a discussion about changing the climate narrative on Saturday evening to lead a demonstration about the festival's main sponsor, the investment company Baillie Gifford.
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