Activists have begun a week-long occupation outside Lewisham town hall in protest of the council’s alleged lack of progress on its ten-year plan to address climate change.
Campaigners pitched tents on the green opposite the council's Catford headquarters this morning (November 29), erecting a banner calling on Mayor Damien Egan to “tell the truth”.
...because a good dose of hypothermia would be just the ticket!
Zaria Greenhill, Catford resident and founder of Climate Action Lewisham, a local residents’ action group working to support and generate initiatives in the borough, said: “Whilst we recognise that funding and pandemic restrictions hamper work to reduce emissions, unfortunately the climate emergency will not wait.
“The council needs to go through a whole-organisation reorientation to put climate higher up the priority list, and insist on challenging developers, protecting remaining trees and pushing forward active travel, using every tool available to put climate at the heart of council operations.
“Residents expect it, and without it, Lewisham risks slipping behind other boroughs in local authority engagement."
So is Lewisham Council doing nothing? Reader, of course not. It's doing what all councils are doing, demanding more taxpayer money to futilely battle the sun:
It has launched a new community energy fund, offering up to £15,000 one-off grants to energy efficiency and carbon reduction projects, such as the installation of solar panels on community buildings.
The council also successfully bid for £2,983,428 under the government’s public sector decarbonisation scheme earlier this year to fund energy efficiency works in council buildings.
But fanatics like these wil never be appeased. So let them feel the 'global warming' for themselves as they shiver in their tents.
9 comments:
I wish this global warming would hurry up. As I get older I'm starting to feel the cold more.
I pluck two words from Zaria's spiel, hamper work. That's what it's all about, they hope generous donors will see them shivering in their tents and donate Christmas hampers to the sappy campers. Personally I'd throw rotten veg at them.
I can't agree more with Lord T, Down here on the French Spanish border it is 7 degrees C in the afternoon and much colder if you consider the wind chill. According to my met station it is colder at this time than it was last year at the same time. Global warming is a myth of the UN Church of Climatology.
"the climate emergency will not wait."
I find it fascinating and disturbing that a completely imaginary problem has become the biggest and most important issue of our times. Every western government is obsessed with it. How long will the world have to carry on exactly as it always has before the truth dawns that there isn't, and never was, a problem?
@Lord T
It hasn't been global warming for ages I'm afraid. It had to be rebranded as climate change when the temperature stopped rising. It had to be rebranded as a crisis and an emergency because change wasn't scary enough.
Perhaps they could get 'the other lot', IR, to cover their flimsy tents in sheep's wool or similar?
This entertainment might require more popcorn...
I'm currently engaged in a thread on farcebox which started with a "send us money and we'll stop global warming" or some such cock. When I described it as data manipulation and scaremongering the keyboard warriors leapt into action. I'm not letting go, am being polite and using big words so the fun should last a while yet.
"I wish this global warming would hurry up. As I get older I'm starting to feel the cold more."
The news that Anerdeenshire villages have now spent over a week without power thanks to Storm Arwen might be a glimpse of all our futures, if we keep going down this Green path...
"Personally I'd throw rotten veg at them."
I wouldn't waste the rotten veg like that, surely there are some pigs who need it more.. 😉
"Global warming is a myth of the UN Church of Climatology."
Seconded!
"I find it fascinating and disturbing that a completely imaginary problem has become the biggest and most important issue of our times."
If only it was just the one imaginary problem...
"When I described it as data manipulation and scaremongering the keyboard warriors leapt into action."
Of course! They are legion.
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