#GretaThunberg accuses #EdinburghBookFestival sponsor of ‘#greenwashing’

#ClimateActivist pulls out of event, saying sponsor #BaillieGifford invests heavily in #FossilFuels industry

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/04/greta-thunberg-accuses-edinburgh-book-festival-sponsor-of-greenwashing #EdinburghFestival #Edinburgh #Books

Climate activist #gretathunberg will now not attend the #Edinburgh Intl Book Festival because it receives sponsorship from the #bailliegifford investment firm, which “invests heavily in the #fossilfuel industry,” says Ms Thunberg. The sponsorship of cultural events allows the fossil fuel industry to maintain “social license to continue operating”— a form of #greenwashing — while still exacerbating the #climatecrisis we are experiencing.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-66407059

Roof-walking: among the hobbies of Katherine Rundell, youngest winner of the Baillie Gifford prize for her biography of “poet of desire” John Donne. Here she is atop All Souls, Oxford.

#BaillieGifford #KatherineRundell #JohnDonne

I've nearly finished 'The Escape Artist' by Jonathan Freedland. I haven't read any of the other books on the #bailliegifford shortlist—I would definitely like to, especially the two other history ones—but surely none of them can be as good as this? 📚 📚 📚 #nowreading