Richard Hawkins, eco campaigner  Richard, 25, was in the final
year of a law degree when he had an epiphany. 'It was our first
lecture on international environmental law and the lecturer
basically said, "There isn't any." He spent the rest of the
lecture talking about climate change.'  Richard now campaigns
against open-cast coal mining, and coal generally. 'Coal is the
dirtiest fossil fuel known to man and if the government's to
meet its climate change targets, we have to start leaving it in
the ground.'  Not many people can say they've locked themselves
to a digger with George Monbiot. 'It was exhilarating; there's a
feeling that permeates society that the only power we have as
individuals is as consumers. But being a consumer's very
different to being a citizen, and for once in my life, I felt
like a citizen, someone doing what they believed in.'  He
doesn't subscribe to the 'we're doomed' argument. 'But there's a
definite possibility we're very close to a tipping point, where
the biosphere takes over and