The Campaign against Climate Change was in on the act at the Film Premiere of 'The Day After Tomorrow', In Leicester Square, on Wednesday, May 26th. 'The Day After Tomorrow' is the big new 'disaster-movie' blockbuster about climate change (to find out more about what is and isn't good science in the film, etc etc, check out www.thedayaftertomorrow.org/ ). The film's got a lot of people talking about the potentially disastrous impacts of climate change and we hit the premiere to add a bit of a political angle: to make sure the finger was firmly pointed at those doing the most, right now, to make sure nothing is done about the threat from climate change - namely George Bush and his fossil fuel corporate backers in the US. Appropriately costumed, see photos
many "celebs" were out were out to mark the occasion, some ubiquitous boy band came over and took some leaflets and Mel C previously of the Spice girls unwittingly entered our zone and when I handed her one of our flyers, she thought I was asking for her autograph and then recoiled exclaiming- "I don’t want to get too political", apart from the two premiere guests sporting some boycott Esso t-shirts, there was a general consensus of the famous to pretend we weren’t there. - Which is a huge shame because 1 famous person's endorsement would create a snowball effect of support. The attitude of the premiere guests was largely incongruous with the impetus of the film; nevertheless we got ourselves onto Sky TV amongst other media sources.