Andy Atkins

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:And I think it’s really good that the faith groups are now getting on board as well because I think if we can shift the faith communities or shift them through their faith, which is much more about emotions and beliefs than it is about engineering or money, which we know we need money, that’s not the problem but how do you get people to take the action. That’s emotional. That’s beliefs. So I think boy, have we run out of time on a lot of the environmental issues, climate included. We are so up against it but the more we can get to people’s beliefs and emotions, I think the more progress we will make so the entry into the fray of the faith groups is also, I think, a really important development.British Library catalogue number: C2037/65 Project clip number: 194