Joss Garman joined the environmental movement at 14. He has since been arrested over 20 times and was a founder member of the group Plane Stupid. Here Lucy Knight profiles him Early years Born in 1985 in Mid-Wales, Joss Garman was one of four boys. His parents work in the emergency services equipment industry and his father is the inventor of the world’s first bath lift. With parents who are nature lovers, as well as members of Greenpeace it seemed only logical that Garman would cultivate a passion for the great outdoors. “I was surrounded by beauty and wildlife,” Garman told newstatesman.com. “I was really into Gerald Durrell books and I had my own menagerie with snakes and spiders.” “But I guess my political awakening came when I was 14 years old. I read an article by the curator of Entomology at Oxford, George McGavin,...
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