Marketing campaign towards Local weather Change Kyoto Local weather March – 2005

Marketing campaign towards Local weather Change Kyoto Local weather March: One other submit from the previous – 20 years in the past on Saturday twelfth February 2005- which has maybe added resonance now that Trump and President Musk have condemned humanity to demise with their local weather roasting rejection of our final possibilities of survival. Although like a few of his multi-billionaire mates he maybe trusts inhumanity will survive of their local weather bunkers with their closely armed guards to maintain out the remainder of us. And as a small bonus I’ll add the anti-consumerist Valentines Day Reclaim Love which I photographed later the identical day round Eros.

So right here once more is the textual content from 2005, suitably recapitalised and barely corrected, together with a number of of the photographs and linked to the remainder. And the odd hyperlink so as to add context which individuals might have now forgotten.

Marketing campaign towards Local weather Change Kyoto Local weather March

Once I talked in regards to the risks of accelerating CO2 emission and the necessity to minimize down use of fossil fuels 35 years in the past, I used to be a crank. Now everybody besides the USA oil foyer and their political poodles recognises that local weather change is for actual.

Even Blair has recognised it as probably the most important subject going through us, threatening the way forward for the planet, though really taking efficient motion nonetheless is a step too far for him. Nonetheless he did name for a convention to look at the issue, which instructed him and us that we had maybe ten years to take motion earlier than it might be to late.

Kyoto is historical past now due to the US boycott, (though it comes into impact this week), nevertheless it ought to have been the primary insufficient step on the street to motion.

Each journey has to start out someway, and even a half-hearted step is best than none, and would have led the best way to others. What received in its approach was Texan oil pursuits, whose political face is George W Bush.

I’ve photographed many of the Marketing campaign In opposition to Local weather Change’s Kyoto marches over the previous few years. This one was in all probability the most important, and positively excited extra media curiosity, actually an indication that the problem has turn out to be information.

Beginning in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, the march stopped first outdoors the UK workplaces of Exxonmobil, on the nook of Kingsway for a quick declaration,

then for an extended demonstration outdoors the Australian Excessive Fee in Aldwych (with visitor appearances by its PM ‘John Howard‘ and an Australian ‘Grim Reaper’ with cork embellished hat),

earlier than making its well past Trafalgar Sq. and Piccadilly Circus to the Us Embassy.
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O-I-L One in Love – Reclaim Love, Eros, Piccadilly Circus

I left the local weather march in Picadilly and returned to Eros, the place O-I-L, One In Love, have been organising a small gathering to “reclaim love” and “ship love and therapeutic to all of the beings on the earth” on the eve of Valentine’s day. It’s one thing we may all do with, and it was good to see individuals having fun with themselves across the statue of Eros (Anteros for pedants) in what’s often probably the most miserable spots on London’s vacationer circuit.

There was the samba band once more, Rhythms Of Resistance, (hello guys) and dancing and other people typically being comfortable and pleasant and free Reclaim Love t shirts and aside from the occasional showers it was innocent enjoyable.

Reasonably to my shock, the police both didn’t discover it or determined to disregard it, an unusually wise technique

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