Christian Hacking had just graduated from Leeds University and was on a teacher training scheme when he had a rock climbing accident that left him partially paralysed and needing a wheelchair. As he was going through rehab, he started asking himself how his energies could best be spent. One question he raised was: “What is the injustice that future generations will look back and judge us for?”
Hacking considered global warming, educational disadvantage and homelessness but decided they were already well catered for. “Then I ran through the same metric for abortion and I was like, ‘Hang on, this is on a different scale’.”
Which is why, almost a decade later, Hacking, 32, is spending his Saturday morning outside St Pancras station in London in