On our ninth day of Phoebemas, I give to you 6 So It Goes Magazine scan upgrades.
Phoebemas 2020 – Day 6
Phoebe for Stellar Magazine
Elle Australia Scans + Outtakes
Phoebe Covers Elle Australia’s March Issue
Phoebe Tonkin Talks Activism, Acting—And Loving ‘Fleabag’
Interviewed by those who know her best, including friends.
Phoebe Tonkin is a woman with a conscience—and a good friend.
“I’m really lucky that I have some beautiful, wonderful friends and we support each other, and I can’t imagine a world in which we wouldn’t,” Tonkin says. “My friends are a really strong, feisty, supportive, goal-oriented and balanced group of women. They all collectively inspire me in different ways.”
Environmental activism is one of those ways, and it isn’t always easy. Tonkin had to learn pages and pages of dry facts and figures when campaigning with her friend and fellow actor Carson Meyer to encourage the Californian congress to ban an agricultural pesticide that can make children sick. But her efforts paid off, and the chemical was banned.
Tonkin has also worked with the Climate Council, and uses her 5.4 million-strong following on Instagram to spread crucial information on climate change and green activism.
“We are in a climate crisis right now, and there isn’t enough being done,” she says. “It’s too late for small changes—we need to look at bigger ways to make a difference, like pressuring banks to stop investing in coal mines.”
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