When she emerged from the pandemic, record-breaking cyclist and age-group champion triathlete Kate Strong was looking for some good news. From where she was sitting, the world was a dark place: the climate was changing irreversibly, and instead of uniting around the cause, Britain appeared divided.
Strong decided to seek out community for herself, and set out on a lap of the United Kingdom, planning to engage with local people as she went. In doing so, Strong hoped to understand how the climate crisis sat in the British consciousness, and sought to bring new vigour to the national conversation about our relationship with the environment. Handily for GCN, she undertook her journey on a bicycle, and so, a couple of days after she completed her circumnavigation, we caught up with her to find out more.
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