Tom Burke

This clip is from a series of 100 life history interviews with environmental campaigners in the UK, 1970-2020. It will feature in a book published by UCL Press in 2026. The full interview, along with the rest of the collection will be searchable on the British Library’s Sound and Moving Image catalogue and the interviews will be accessible onsite at the British Library in St Pancras from February 2026. For more information visit www.royalholloway.ac.uk/ohemQuotation:We were driven by resources and pollution. So in a sense we were much more driven about the impacts on human beings rather than simply the impacts on wildlife. So we added, I mean, do you see what I mean, we added a whole note to- And so not surprisingly we therefore develop new techniques because we were moving- We had no land base in the way that both WWF, the RSPB, that tradition had had a lot of engagement in land use. And then there were the civic people like the Civic Trust and the RTPI who had been campaigning on planning issues. And planning hadn’t really dealt with the environment. So again we started to interact in those sort of first year, mid-seventies really, to interact quite strongly. And in particular with CPRE.British Library catalogue number: C2037/10 Project clip number: 107