Johann Hari: We should all be at Heathrow protesting
It is collective pressure on government, not consumer choices, that
the world needs now
Published: 13 August 2007
http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_a_l/johann_hari/article2859059.ece
This week, two thousand people will gather at London's Heathrow
airport with tents and sleeping bags - not to EasyJet to the beach,
but to alert their fellow citizens to the Weather of Mass Destruction
we are unleashing.
If you need to know why this is necessary, take a look at the world
the deniers are so glibly averting their eyes from. The two countries
doomed to drown by global warming in my lifetime have already begun to
disappear beneath the waves. Almost half of Bangladesh is under water
as you read this, following monsoons four times more ferocious than
they should be. Ten million people are now homeless in the region. In
the Maldives, a series of massive swell waves stretching to 4.5 metres
drowned 68 islands this spring. The residents know the waves are
getting bigger every year, and soon they will swallow their homes
forever.
