The RISING TIDE TOUR HITS LONDON, May 12th 2001
Rising Tide UK | 05.05.2001 22:48
The RISING TIDE TOUR HITS LONDON, 4-7pm, Saturday May 12th 2001 at The Exchange, Sebbon St, London N1…taking local action on the root causes of climate change…
…taking local action on the root causes of climate change…
The RISING TIDE TOUR HITS LONDON,
4-7pm, Saturday May 12th 2001
The Exchange, Sebbon St, London N1, (behind Islington Town Hall), tube: Angel or Highbury & Islington.
Details:
info@risingtide.org.uk
The Rising Tide Tour is visiting over 10 towns in the UK this early summer in the run-up to the next climate trade fair in Bonn in July.
The London leg will take place on Saturday May 12th. It hopes to raise the temperature of climate change action, throw out useful information and provoke much-needed debate on climate chaos and its causes. It should also be a good day out. There will be solar-powered videos and sound systems, radio, interactive theatre, up-to-date info about current climate campaigns, smaller group discussions and a whole lot more.
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Rivers bursting their banks once, twice, and more, across the UK this winter; giant cracks in Antartica’s ice sheets; the 1990’s as the warmest decade in the last 1000 years the climate is in chaos. Of course, changes in climate have taken place throughout Earth’s history. But the speed of recent changes means that even United Nations-appointed scientists, the IPCC (or Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change) admits that climate chaos is accelerated by human behaviour. And that this chaos may have disastrous consequences.
Climate change means more than grape-growing in Birmingham (or malaria in Margate) it is a problem of social justice. The majority of greenhouse gases (the gases that speed up climate change) are emitted by the more wealthy. The first to feel the impacts are the poor, and they have limited resources to respond. By 2020 climate chaos will lead to over 20 million people, from Yorkshire to Papua New Guinea and across the world, having to leave their homes as 'environmental refugees'.
The IPCC calls for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of 60% to 90% - yet UN climate talks in November 2000 collapsed, with governments more interested in maintaining economic growth, regardless of the consequences.
People from different backgrounds, who share a concern for climate justice, have got together to do something about this and are starting off with the Rising Tide Tour.
Other dates:
BRIGHTON 3rd 4th May
FARNBOROUGH 8th May
LONDON 10th May West London
12th May Islington
EDINBURGH 14th 16th May
NEWCASTLE 16th 18th May
LANCASTER 22nd 24th May
LIVERPOOL 24th 25th May
YORK 26th May 29th May
HULL tbc
READING 7th 8th June
OXFORD 9th June
www.risingtide.org.uk
The RISING TIDE TOUR HITS LONDON,
4-7pm, Saturday May 12th 2001
The Exchange, Sebbon St, London N1, (behind Islington Town Hall), tube: Angel or Highbury & Islington.
Details:
info@risingtide.org.uk The Rising Tide Tour is visiting over 10 towns in the UK this early summer in the run-up to the next climate trade fair in Bonn in July.
The London leg will take place on Saturday May 12th. It hopes to raise the temperature of climate change action, throw out useful information and provoke much-needed debate on climate chaos and its causes. It should also be a good day out. There will be solar-powered videos and sound systems, radio, interactive theatre, up-to-date info about current climate campaigns, smaller group discussions and a whole lot more.
#########################################################
Rivers bursting their banks once, twice, and more, across the UK this winter; giant cracks in Antartica’s ice sheets; the 1990’s as the warmest decade in the last 1000 years the climate is in chaos. Of course, changes in climate have taken place throughout Earth’s history. But the speed of recent changes means that even United Nations-appointed scientists, the IPCC (or Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change) admits that climate chaos is accelerated by human behaviour. And that this chaos may have disastrous consequences.
Climate change means more than grape-growing in Birmingham (or malaria in Margate) it is a problem of social justice. The majority of greenhouse gases (the gases that speed up climate change) are emitted by the more wealthy. The first to feel the impacts are the poor, and they have limited resources to respond. By 2020 climate chaos will lead to over 20 million people, from Yorkshire to Papua New Guinea and across the world, having to leave their homes as 'environmental refugees'.
The IPCC calls for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of 60% to 90% - yet UN climate talks in November 2000 collapsed, with governments more interested in maintaining economic growth, regardless of the consequences.
People from different backgrounds, who share a concern for climate justice, have got together to do something about this and are starting off with the Rising Tide Tour.
Other dates:
BRIGHTON 3rd 4th May
FARNBOROUGH 8th May
LONDON 10th May West London
12th May Islington
EDINBURGH 14th 16th May
NEWCASTLE 16th 18th May
LANCASTER 22nd 24th May
LIVERPOOL 24th 25th May
YORK 26th May 29th May
HULL tbc
READING 7th 8th June
OXFORD 9th June
www.risingtide.org.uk
Rising Tide UK
e-mail:
info@risingtide.org.uk
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