Climate Camp 2007 : Heathrow Here We Come !

The Camp for Climate Action comes to Heathrow Airport in
2007, for a summer of sustainability, solidarity and sanity :-
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/location.php

Aviation is the fastest growing source of Greenhouse Gas
emissions in the United Kingdom, and all our efforts to
tackle Climate Change in other sectors will be undone by
the massive growth in air travel.

Holding this year's Climate Camp at Heathrow aims to
highlight the lunacy of the Government's airport expansion
plans, target industry giants profiteering from the
Climate crisis, and raise awareness of the need to fly less.

The camp will also support local residents in their
long-term struggle against the building of a third runway
and the destruction of their communities.

There will be a day of mass direct action aiming to disrupt
the activities of the airport and the aviation industry, but
in the interests of public safety there will be no attempt
to blockade runways.

Although the location is different from 2006, when we went
to the Drax coal power station to shut it down, the philosophy
of the camp remains the same : to be a space for the burgeoning
network of people taking radical action on Climate Change.

We come together for a week of low-impact living, education,
debate, networking, strategising, celebration, and direct action.

The camp will feature over 100 workshops covering topics such
as Climate Change impacts, Carbon Offsetting, Biofuels, Peak Oil,
Permaculture, practical Renewables, campaign strategy, skills
for direct action, and much more.

Run without leaders by everyone who comes along, it will be a
working ecological village using Renewable Energy, composting
waste and sourcing food locally.

It all comes down to us, now. We are the last generation that
can do anything about Climate Change. The world has less than
10 years to come up with a workable plan.

In 20 or 30 years' time, should we not change our ways, we'll
be committed to emissions increases that will see forests burn,
soils decay, oceans rise, species extinction and millions of
people die, or be displaced from their land.

If we don't get this issue right, so much else is lost too.

We still have time, but not for long. Make it count.

7 short films of Climate Camp participants :-
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/videos.php

Camp for Climate Action, 14th - 21st August 2007 :-
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk

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