XR on the BBC, Noahs Ark & 9 Elms: On Thursday twenty first December 2018 after photographing a protest on the BBC by the Local weather Media Coalition over the BBC failures in presenting the local weather emergency and their programmes which encourage local weather wrecking actions I took a couple of photos of the close by Noah’s Ark Earth Rescue show earlier than going to the US Embassy to cowl a protest there. Sadly though I and the police made it on time the protesters failed to show up. I took a stroll across the space – London’s largest growth taking a couple of photos and when after an hour solely a single protester and one other photographer had arrived I went dwelling.
Extinction Insurrection on the BBC – Broadcasting Home
Local weather campaigners from Extinction Insurrection got here to the BBC to inform it to cease ignoring the local weather emergency and mass extinction happening and selling harmful high-carbon residing by means of programmes resembling Prime Gear and people on trend, journey, makeovers and so forth.
The BBC had lengthy misused its coverage of impartiality to provide big prominence to a small group of local weather deniers, largely fossil gas lobbyists, to provide them equal airtime to the warnings supported by the large physique of scientific proof on world warming brought on by our growing consumption of coal, oil and gasoline with the related rise in greenhouse gases within the earth’s ambiance.
The protest had been organised by environmental campaigner Donnachadh McCarthy and the Local weather Media Coalition they usually had introduced with them mannequins wrapped in white sheets to symbolize the 27 local weather victims from the Greek Village of Mati, burned alive by a wildfire. They have been amongst 100 persons are identified to have died in Greece within the fires brought on by world warming. They set these out in entrance of the BBC for a vigil firstly of the protest
Later there have been offended protests at each entrances to the BBC website which which was closed off by obstacles and safety employees. It took a few minutes by means of the native streets to get between the 2 and I used to be on the different one the place two protesters had superglued their arms, one to the steps and one other to the door, when Donnachadh McCarthy tried to climb over the safety banners and was arrested.
You may learn extra concerning the protest together with many photos and captions on My London Diary at Extinction Insurrection on the BBC.
Humanity Face Extinction – Nice Portland St
The protest on the BBC was persevering with after I walked in the direction of the tube to journey to a protest sceduled on the US Embassy in 9 Elms and stopped to take a couple of photos of the Noah’s Ark Earth Rescue show.
This was abandoned most likely as these normally right here have been all on the BBC protest. The show was part of the “eco-warriors’ worldwide publicity marketing campaign to avoid wasting the South Pacific island nations from vanishing beneath the rising sea ranges and providing real options to avoid wasting humanity from being pushed to extinction by world warming on account of the burning of fossil fuels.”
Extra photos at Humanity Face Extinction
9 Elms Wander
I arrived on the US Embassy on the time given on the press launch and the Fb occasion web page for a protest in opposition to Trump’s announcement of the withdrawal of US troops from Syria to search out two police autos however no protesters.
After ready round ten minutes I took a stroll across the space, a part of an enormous redevelopment between the previous Battersea Energy Station and Vauxhall which I’d been looking forward to some years from the prepare as I got here into London and had typically photographed by means of the prepare home windows.
Below the River Thames building was additionally happening for London’s new super-sewer, the 16 mile lengthy Thames Tideway Tunnel anticipated to be absolutely operational in 2025 and the primary main improve to London’s sewage methods since Bazalgette in 1875.
I went again to the embassy an hour after the protest was attributable to begin. By now one man had arrived additionally in search of the protest, and a second photographer. I walked again as much as Vauxhall Station to see if I might discover any protesters on their method, however met none and so I caught the prepare dwelling.
Extra photos at 9 Elms Wander.
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