My mum’s death
Pete Wilkinson's memories of the time around his mother's death. Especially with the pandemic, this is an everyman story.
Pete is co-founder of Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace UK and architect of what one journalist called "some of the most imaginative and successful environmental campaigns of the 80": radioactive waste dumping at sea ended, UK fur trade curtailed, dolphinaria banned, seal culling in the Orkneys abandoned, liquid radioactive waste discharges to the Irish Sea dramatically reduced, Antarctica declared a mining-free zone until 2041. Consultant to many government departments and industries. Author of two books. Member of Defra’s committee on radioactive waste management 2003–2007.
Pete Wilkinson's memories of the time around his mother's death. Especially with the pandemic, this is an everyman story.
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