Friday, April 27, 2012

Is climate protest making a return to the UK?

Guardian: Did climate protest go away? It certainly did. By 2009 the UK had a worldwide reputation for climate action, but in the years after the UN climate talks in Copenhagen in December of that year it seemed to be melting away. Climate Camp spent the summer of 2010 up in Scotland, and then decided to not to set up camp at all in 2011. Stop Climate Chaos was stripped down to a skeleton staff, and the head of Campaign Against Climate Change admitted that he was exhausted and "running out of money massively"....

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/27/climate-protest-return-uk
Enclosure: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/4/27/1335546052835/Climate-camp-008.jpg

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