Camp for Climate Action 2007 : Heathrow Airport

Start: 14 Aug 2007 - 00:00
End: 21 Aug 2007 - 23:59

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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