Adrian Whitehead is the only environmentalist I know who has ever harboured credible ambitions to be a paratrooper. We campaigned on forests together in the early 1990s when Adrian was in the Army Reserve. He approaches defence of the nation and of the planet with a consistent moral clarity; if something is valuable and is under threat, then you have a duty to protect it.
Thanks to weak knees and other joys of impending middle age, Adrian never did make it into 3 RAR. But he did start something heroic. Adrian co-founded Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) with current Executive Director Matthew Wright.
