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How can we best defend our planet?

with Jonathon Porritt and Monica Feria Tinta
Curious Minds Festival
Thu 19 Mar ’26 19:30 - 20:30
Thu 19 Mar ’26
19:30 - 20:30
  • Thu 19 Mar ’26
    Doors open
    19:00
    Start
    19:30
    Approx. end
    20:30
    St Swithin's Church, BA1 5LY
    Tickets
  • Tickets from £11 (inc. fees)

From courtrooms to climate protests, don’t miss this powerful conversation about the tools that could still save our planet.

Can the law really defend the natural world? And can collective action still shift a future that feels increasingly locked in?

Join environmental campaigner Jonathon Porritt and climate and environmental law barrister Monica Feria-Tinta as they explore the rising global movement to defend the planet in the courts and on the streets.

 Drawing on their books Love, Anger & Betrayal and A Barrister for the Earth, they discuss the courage of young climate activists, the rise of environmental litigation and the push to recognize nature's rights in law. At a time of accelerating ecological breakdown, this conversation asks a question that can no longer be deferred: what tools still have the power to protect the future we share?

'Inspiring . . . Law could be our planet's greatest hope.' Isabella Tree (on A Barrister for the Earth)

This event will be followed by a book signing, supported by Mr B’s Emporium of Books

Part of

Magnificent and crucial. This book should be a lodestone for all we believe in.

George Monbiot (on Love Anger and Betrayal)

About Jonathon Porritt

For more than fifty years, Jonathon Porritt has been campaigning for the environment and social justice, while simultaneously advising governments, businesses and NGOs. The author of many highly respected books, he still believes that it is 'not too late' to avoid climate breakdown.


About Monica Feria-Tinta

Mónica Feria-Tinta is a British-Peruvian barrister at the Bar of England & Wales. She has litigated groundbreaking cases on environmental/climate justice paving the way to legal accountability for environmental wrongs globally for which she had earned several awards. She was The Times' first "Lawyer of the Week" in 2025. Her first book, A Barrister for the Earth, has been shortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards.

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