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World Worriers

Not a rort: the people on the other side of the ledger. Profiles of those who spent their lives refusing to let it slide. Not hagiographies, not attack pieces: what they believed, what they did, and what it cost them.

SIGNAL · 31/03/2026Operation Krill Wars

The M/V Bandero, operated by the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, rammed the Norwegian krill trawler Antarctic Sea in Antarctic waters. Aker BioMarine called it a terrorist attack. Watson called it aggressive nonviolence.

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Fig. 01 / The roster · the people pushing the other way

Paul Watson at an anti-whaling protest, 199901/The piratePaul Watsonb. 1950Co-founded Greenpeace and was expelled. Founded Sea Shepherd and lost control of it. Arrested on four continents. Still ramming.OPEN THE PROFILE →Jane Goodall at her 85th birthday celebration, Beverly Hills, 201902/The last treeJane Goodall1934–2025Spent 65 years rewriting what humans knew about chimpanzees. Named her subjects when science said numbers were the only proper method.OPEN THE PROFILE →Greta Thunberg at the Global Climate Strike, Mynttorget, Stockholm, March 201903/The girl who wouldn’t stopGreta Thunbergb. 2003Sat alone outside the Swedish parliament at 15. Within a year, 4 million people were striking in 161 countries.OPEN THE PROFILE →Sylvia Earle scuba diving at Midway Atoll, 201204/Her DeepnessSylvia Earleb. 1935More than 7,000 hours underwater across 100+ expeditions. Walked the ocean floor solo at 381 metres; the record still stands.OPEN THE PROFILE →Sir David Attenborough at The Perfect World Foundation Award, 201805/Seven decades of wonderDavid Attenboroughb. 1926Making nature documentaries since 1954. Showed the world what it stood to lose, then, in his eighties, started saying so.OPEN THE PROFILE →Vandana Shiva speaking in Berlin, 202006/The seed keeperVandana Shivab. 1952PhD in the philosophy of physics. Founded Navdanya to keep indigenous seeds out of corporate hands.OPEN THE PROFILE →Bill McKibben at the Stop the Keystone XL pipeline rally, October 201107/The number that became a movementBill McKibbenb. 1960Wrote the first climate book for a general audience in 1989. Turned one number, 350, into a movement.OPEN THE PROFILE →Vanessa Nakate at the Conference on Loss and Damage, Edinburgh08/Cropped outVanessa Nakateb. 1996Cropped out of the AP photograph at Davos, the only Black activist in the frame. Refused to stay out of the picture.OPEN THE PROFILE →Boyan Slat meeting with Dutch minister Lilianne Ploumen, February 201509/The cleanupBoyan Slatb. 1994Saw more plastic than fish at 16. Dropped out of aerospace engineering at 19 and founded The Ocean Cleanup.OPEN THE PROFILE →Roger Hallam at an Extinction Rebellion event, London, April 201910/The disruptorRoger Hallamb. 1966Co-founded Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil. Sentenced to five years in prison for a Zoom call.OPEN THE PROFILE →
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