Drawing a line in the sand - a conversation with a young eco-activist, Lea Weimann

PLANT Voices

Last year saw a Line in The Sand event on West Sands beach in St Andrews on the 20th of September. It was a part of a day of massive strikes across the world calling for urgent action on climate emergency. As you may know the wave was a culmination of over a year of Fridays for Future, a climate school strike movement, inspired by a young Swedish activist, Greta Thunberg. The event was repeated this year in a much more scaled down, altogether quieter, covid-safe version - which some say was even more poignant than last years crowds. One of PLANT members, Kathleen, took part in both representing our community and contributing some PLANT-themed climate action sand art this year. Today we hear her in conversation with Lea Weimann, a St Andrews university student and eco-activist who is one the event’s organisers. They talk about the roots of her activist journey, her poetry, and building back better.

Lea’s selling her beautifully illustrated poetry book, Dear Earth, to raise funds for environmental charities. You can find out more about how the book came about and how to order it on her website eco-activists.co.za. If you would like to hear more from Lea tune into her weekly eco-activist radio show on St Andrews University STAR radio (also published as a podcast on Anchor).

Kathleen wrote about the events on West Sands in 2019 and 2020.