28 Facts About Zion Lights

Zion Lights was born on June 1984 and is a British author and activist known for her environmental work and science communication.

Zion Lights was a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion UK on TV and radio between 2018 and 2020, and founded and edited XR's Hourglass newspaper.

Zion Lights wrote a column for The Huffington Post, authored the evidence-based nonfiction book The Ultimate Guide to Green Parenting, and contributed to Zero Waste Kids with humanitarian Robin Greenfield.

Zion Lights has given a TED talk on the need for people to be able to stargaze.

Zion Lights's parents immigrated to the UK from a small village in the Punjab in India and were factory workers in Birmingham.

When she was young, Lights made an appearance on Junior Mastermind.

Zion Lights attended the University of Reading, graduating in 2005 with a degree in English Language and Literature.

Zion Lights completed an MSc in Science Communication at the University of the West of England in 2019.

Zion Lights is an environmental activist and writer with a focus on ethical parenting and climate change.

Zion Lights joined the Camp for Climate Action movement in 2006, where she was arrested multiple times for protesting coal and tar sands investment, and witnessed police brutality at the Kingsnorth camp.

Zion Lights appeared on Good Morning Britain multiple times to talk about climate change, once resulting in criticism from viewers who complained that host Richard Madeley barely allowed Lights to speak.

Zion Lights has written one nonfiction book titled The Ultimate Guide to Green Parenting.

Zion Lights' poetry has appeared in the Tolpuddle Special of Citizen 32 magazine, in Musings, a poetry collection collated to raise funds for La Leche League GB, and most recently in the collection A Nightingale Sang, a limited poetry magazine created for New Networks for Nature.

Zion Lights is an outspoken science advocate: in 2015 the Western Morning News newspaper reported that she is against pseudoscience.

Zion Lights was co-editor of Juno magazine for 7 years and wrote for The Huffington Post.

Zion Lights founded and edited the XR newspaper The Hourglass, which launched in September 2019 and ran until May 2020.

Zion Lights appeared on the BBC multiple times to discuss the power of protest and need for climate action, and was interviewed on Ed Miliband's podcast Reasons to be Cheerful.

Zion Lights left XR after an interview on The Andrew Neil Show in October 2019 where she was unable to defend the claim a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion had made that 6 billion people would die by the end of the century due to climate change.

Zion Lights has given lectures at many universities, The Royal Institution, and REF in Paris alongside French ministers where she called on the French government to be ambitious with their nuclear energy plans.

Zion Lights was awarded the Holyoake lecture medal by Humanists UK, of which she is a Patron, in 2023.

Zion Lights's talks focus on the importance of communicating science effectively, the climate and ecological emergency, the problems with environmentalism, clean energy, her experiences of being a woman of colour in the green movement.

Between 2021 and 2024 Zion Lights was a Labour City Councillor for the Pennsylvania ward in Exeter.

Zion Lights originally contacted Shellenberger to complain about an article he had written for Forbes in which she was pictured alongside Greta Thunberg, US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bill McKibben and a koala under the title 'Why Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong'.

Zion Lights has now become one of the most sought-after speakers in the world on nuclear energy, writing for newspapers around the world including German newspaper Die Welt, and appearing in French press and media including l'Express, la Tribune, France 24, Atlantico, le Point, Marianne, and l'Opinion.

Zion Lights has compared being anti-nuclear to being anti-vaccination and told French press that "every nuclear power plant closure is a crime against humanity".

Zion Lights has featured in the Australian documentary The Clean Energy Debate in 2021 and written numerous articles to address the myths around nuclear energy, stating in OpenDemocracy that she is frequently attacked for doing so.

Zion Lights authored a paper for Knowmad Institut on the Sustainable Development Goals, which include fossil fuels but not nuclear energy.

Zion Lights is a single mother and lives in Devon with her two daughters.