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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Sirin Kale

The people making a difference: the climate activist fighting fossil fuel giants

Nick Hodginskon, pictured in Leeds’ Roundhay Park.
Nick Hodginskon, pictured in Leeds’ Roundhay Park. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

Nick Hodgkinson has a dark sense of humour, which comes in useful during his climate change activism.

Take the time the 59-year-old was protesting with Extinction Rebellion outside the Houses of Parliament. Hodgkinson, a retired charity worker, has motor neurone disease (MND). He uses a heavy, motorised wheelchair and has a tracheostomy tube in his neck that connects to a ventilator, meaning he communicates mainly through typing on his phone.

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