THE CLIMATE CRISIS: “We will be judged on our actions”

James McHaffie

Leading British climber and instructor James McHaffie has campaigned to raise awareness of climate change, including naming new routes in the Dinorwic slate quarries after Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion.

“I’ve been concerned about climate change since the 90s – I remember thinking that I didn’t want a car. At university I studied sustainable development, and a lot of the professors there were quite depressed by the science. It was already looking bad.

“I wrote a couple of articles on climate change, and in 2019 Extinction Rebellion contacted me and asked if I’d like to make a video on the subject. I said that I wasn’t a doctor of climate change and didn’t feel that confident talking about it, but I told them I’d name a new route after them. Then, in April 2019, I heard about what they were doing