Marc Hudson holds dual Australian and British nationality and is a full-time NHS health care professional. He studied in England, Australia and California, and has worked as an aid worker in Mozambique, Angola and Cambodia. He has been working flat out on climate change since 2006. He walked away from Climate Camp in 2007 because it was neither radical enough nor living its rhetoric. Since then he has organised a climate conference at the Royal Society, written scripts for many climate-related cartoons with the brilliant Marc Roberts, and founded Manchester Climate Forum. He co-edits, with Arwa Aburawa, a newsletter with the imaginative title "Manchester Climate Fortnightly" (43 issues so far) and set up the "Call to Real Action" group in response to egregious jargon from Manchester City Council. In his copious spare time he invents shoddy neologism (e.g. nulture, smugosphere, transruptive), reads the Financial Times on the stepper at the gym, and following the fortunes of the Australian cricket team. His heroes include Noam Chomsky, Ella Baker, Bob Moses and, bizarrely, Roger Federer. He is a fellow of the 21st Century Trust and the Salzburg Global Seminar.