It was the darkest of times.
In the belly of the beast. Parliament committee room
This PP group is not about politics, or politicians. Just issues.
and People. and real democracy
As is clear from the art, politicians will never do the right thing,in time. They are inevitably forced to do so by other factors, like
social pressure. We should be those factors.
So we had talks, and questions from the audience, including
@artisttaxidriver
who argued that indeed some rich folks don't care about the planet,
or their own children that are raised by Hispanic nannies anyway.
-He noted how Heathrow has dangerously high pollution already, without
a third runway. This needs to be publicised. Check twitter for
clean air London
Other speakers were a Green Party Marxist guy who was far toophilosophical, as were many in the audience. We need action, people.
George Monbiot of the Guardian, fresh from the flooded farmers'
fields of Somerset,
One of the Greenpeace gang that had attacked the Russian oil platform in
the Arctic circle,
and a climate scientist. (I'll dig the names up soon)
More on this meeting later
