Beccy Speight

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:But I do also have an optimistic part of me that thinks that we know what we need to do to turn that around. And that there does seem to be the political will to do that. So that does make me more optimistic and think that we could see- So I think it could either way to be honest with you, when I look forward ten years. I think we could be in a position where it’s all got a lot worse and we’ve failed basically to turn it around. Or you know we could be on the brink of a, a world that is actually far better for us to kind of live in because we’ve kind of turned things around for nature as well as tackling climate change. So you know we shall see, yes.British Library catalogue number: C2037/63 Project clip number: 224