Flooded People UK

The water is coming. By 2050 8 million homes in England will be at risk of flooding - that’s *one in four*! But for hundreds of UK communities this existential threat has already arrived.Flooded People UK is an innovative organising project which aims to recast the people in flood-hit places from passive victims into active citizens with expertise, collective interdependence, and policy demands. I talk to FPUK organisers Harry and Sanjay to learn about this project’s unusual movement composition, the work it does, and its orientation in the bigger stories of climate and collapse.We cover:How FP is a convergence of the cultures of professional disaster management with the grassroots climate movementWhat FP does: creating national scale political pressure, alongside fostering networks of direct support within and between flooded communitiesHow flooding can impact a person, household and communityRe-imagining the policy position of flooded people - into a proactive political constituencyWhat needs to be done policy-wiseHow climate framing is and isn’t valuable in flooded contextsHow mitigation relates to adaptationThoughts on Kollapscamp and its collapse framingSee more atfloodedpeople.org.ukEnd music:People Gonna Rise Like Water, sung by XR BristolFollow me on Bluesky @douglasrogers.bsky.social‬ or Twitter at @writingDouglas if you're into that kind of thing