Publisher's Synopsis
RUSH! is Tamsin Omond's candid account of becoming a climate activist, and suffragette, how she became a spokesperson for the new radical activists for climate change and feminism. In a world where we are all too aware of the fact that this world is running out of natural resources, it is still nigh on impossible to motivate politicians and governments, as well as a large mass of citizens, to the fact that it is imperative that a serious hold it put on our consumption. While deciding to study for the priesthood, Tamsin Omond started to read climate change data and environmental writers. The book details her year in calm study for the priesthood, followed by her change to activist, subsequent arrest, prison and her terror in sharing a cell with a young woman who considered a prison life of drugs and 24 hour TV better than the outside world. Tamsin Omond gives us a history of the suffragette movement, and a discussion of the women's movement and its failings. From meetings in Parliament (18 per cent female MPs) to small rallies in fields where 81 men spoke against a count of 16 women, what is this strange socialised form of segregation and why did the author, inspired by the suffragettes, want it challenged?
