Eco-idiot is terrified of trace amounts of CO2 in the air, yet is a smoker herself

Tamsin Omond faces her critics - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent

All this from a young woman who was until recently thinking of becoming a priest – and whose grandfather was a baronet. "I'm aware I've been given all sorts of headline-grabbing epithets," said Ormond, rolling a slim cigarette in her favourite café in the centre of Russell Square. "Tamsin Omond, the Cambridge graduate, the granddaughter of a baronet, the wannabe priest and the eco-campaigner. It's silly really and it's annoying that the climate movement always gets boiled down to personalities but I understand that the media need to look for personal stories."

Being a poster girl for the next generation of environmental activists is a label she feels uncomfortable with, but in the past 12 months Omond and her band of highly eloquent, middle-class graduate activists have forced what they believe is the Government's inaction over climate change firmly on to the news agenda.

First there were a string of attacks on the Department for Transport where campaigners frequently (and painfully) glued themselves to the glass doors bringing work inside the building on Horseferry Road to a standstill. Then there was the astonishingly bold protest on the rooftop of Parliament in February, which made headlines around the world and revealed a shocking lapse in security at the heart of government. One of their more comical stunts earlier this summer also involved blasting aircraft noise through the letterbox of transport secretary Ruth Kelly's Docklands flat at 7.30 in the morning.
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She balks at any idea that a woman from her privileged background should opt for a quieter life. "I hate the suggestion that just because I'm a woman I might not be able to handle prison. It is so patronising." she said, becoming angry. "Women are on the front line fighting climate change because they are the first people to suffer from it. About 70 per cent of people in the developing world who are already dying because of climate change are women."