CLIMATE breakdown is real, it’s happening right now, and individual efforts are not enough to stop it.

They haven’t been enough since the 60s and they’re not enough now.

We need system change, and to make that happen we need to cause enough disruption to make governments and corporations take it seriously.

Non-violent, direct action is the most successful way of changing things; think of the suffragettes and the civil rights activists in the US.

Activists are always dismissed as cranks and nuisances at the time; it’s only with hindsight that we can see they were right.

It only takes 3.5 per cent of the population to make change happen so it doesn’t matter if not everyone takes the problem seriously; we’ll still carry on for the sake of all our children and all the species we are destroying at a rate of 20-aday.

Of course, some of us (not all) still rely on fossil fuels for transport, nuclear power and plastics; in the modern world most of us have no choice if we want to earn a living and contribute to society. That’s why we need system change and real alternatives for everyone.

It’s irrelevant that some of us used fossil fuels to get to the protest because there is no alternative.

And to everyone complaining about the traffic being held up and causing more pollution on the immediate area, why didn’t you turn your engines off and wait for a few minutes?

ALI EDGLEY
Bridport