King's Foundation commends former Extinction Rebellion activist
Jack Harries, who has 3.5 million YouTube followers, was arrested in 2019 after gluing his hands to the door of a hotel at an international petroleum conference in London. At the time he told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire that it had been worth it to raise awareness for the cause.
He was later acquitted of criminal damage and aggravated trespass.
In 2020 Harries and his twin brother, Finn, dropped out of university and set up Earthrise Studio, a media company. He has been called 'the Harry Styles of the environment movement' and has interviewed
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