TASC Chair Pete Wilkinson writes
‘Jonathon has been a loyal and unfailing friend to TASC since its
inception more than a decade ago. He has never turned down a request
for help from TASC and his help has been gratefully received and
usefully employed on every occasion. His talk on the 12th November at
Saxmundham Market Hall (7pm – 9pm – ‘Nuclear Fantasies in a Time of
Crisis’) is eagerly anticipated. His reputation as a leading
environmentalist goes back over fifty years when he switched career
focus from law and using his first class degree in modern languages to
environmentalism. He joined the Green Party (then the Ecology Party)
and quickly became its co-chair. He was also Director of Friends of the
Earth until 1991, a position he left just before attending the Rio de
Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992, which he described as a life-changing
experience. He co-founded the Forum for the Future in 1996 which he
still runs today. He became a CBE in 2000 for services to environmental
protection and chaired the UK Sustainable Development Commission between
2000 and 2009. Jonathon wrote a seminal work for the Sizewell C
planning inquiry which examined and deconstructed the government’s
justification for the need for nuclear power to provide a contribution
to a future energy sector. He is a member of the Nuclear Consulting
Group, a seasoned and much-sought after public speaker and TASC invites
him – and his audience – to enjoy the evening and the Suffolk welcome he
will receive.
Pete Wilkinson
