![]() It is government policy to “maximise economic recovery” of oil and gas from the UK’s continental shelf. “Most of us thought it was going to happen to someone else, somewhere else, some other time.” “I feel a sickness in my stomach most days,” says Bradbrook. Now, the IPCC, a group of scientists endorsed by the world’s governments, has issued a “code red for humanity”, warning of increasingly extreme heatwaves, droughts and flooding, and habitable temperature limits being broken in just over a decade. When XR first stopped up London in 2019, it was a “Save the Planet” carnival basking under blue skies. But “things have got worse,” says Gail Bradbrook, XR’s co-founder, who has a PhD in molecular biology. In November, COP26 - the 26th United Nations Climate Change conference - will be hosted in Glasgow. Anchovies, herring and pilchard could face extinction due to warming waters – study.Climate change code red: Now 90% of Londoners say they’re worried.Stephen Fry voices support for upcoming Extinction Rebellion protests – video.The WWF declared “the worst wildfire in modern history” in Australia back in 2020. Record temperatures have piled up across the Northern hemisphere floods drowned hundreds in Western Europe and the Far East all-consuming fires have struck place names off maps from Canada to Crete. Wired magazine went as far as to say that TfL’s engineers are in “a race against time, and the climate crisis, to protect the London Underground”.Īnd Britain has got off lightly. Sadiq Khan has already pointed to flash flooding as evidence that “the dangers of climate change are now moving closer to home”. Last month, London counted the cost of a month’s rainfall in 90 minutes. A pandemic, obviously, but also a catalogue of frightening environmental emergencies that mean XR has been upstaged by its own message. Ironic “blue plaque” stickers will be slapped on buildings belonging to companies deemed guilty of crimes against the climate.Ĭertainly, a lot has changed since the first time XR occupied the streets of the capital in 2019. An animal welfare march will take place at Smithfields meat market and “play-ins” for XR members and their young families, with toys and bring-your-own slides, are expected to occupy a major bank. The aim is to shut down eight sites in the City and to squeeze a new commitment to cease public investment in fossil fuels out of Boris Johnson. An Olympic canoeist and the co-founder of Black Lives Matter Leeds will be among this month’s troops. ![]() XR’s “Impossible Rebellion” begins today, an action that marks its longest protest yet. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.
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