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By: Zion Lights

Zion Lights is director of Environmental Progress UK. She was formerly the editor of The Hourglass newspaper

  • Be eco-rational: The world’s environmental problems are too serious for petty political dogma

    On 14 February 1990, a photograph was taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from the fringes of the solar system.  As it sped further away, engineers spun it around to capture an image of the planet Earth, suspended in space roughly four billion miles away. Taking up only 0.12 of a pixel in the image, [...]

  • An open letter to the PM: Britain must build Sizewell C — nuclear sits at the heart of a green recovery

    An open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, business secretary Alok Sharma, and chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak We are writing as engineers, nuclear experts, scientists and concerned citizens to applaud your commitment to fighting climate change through energy policy, in particular the commitment to proceed with new nuclear construction at the same time [...]

  • A message from a former Extinction Rebellion activist: Fellow environmentalists, join me in embracing nuclear power

    Fellow environmentalists, join me in embracing nuclear power

    As the lockdown measures we have become so familiar with over the past three months are slowly eased, discussions are turning to how to move forward with recovering from the economic hit of Covid-19 in a way that also addresses climate change. I have a long history of campaigning on environmental issues, most recently as [...]

  • DEBATE: Is Extinction Rebellion’s target of net-zero emissions by 2025 economically viable?

    November 29, 2019

    Is Extinction Rebellion’s target of net-zero emissions by 2025 economically viable? Zion Lights, a science communicator and editor of Extinction Rebellion newspaper The Hourglass, says YES. It’s an odd question — if we don’t achieve net-zero emissions sooner than the current target of 2050, we risk committing ourselves to potential economic collapse. Bank of England governor [...]

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