Dear Friends,
 I am writing to you from the big green gathering site in the Mendips, near bristol- a fantastic festival bringing together a wide range of people. The week has been chock full of ideas and workshops, networking and music. true fun.

so, I'd like to make those of you who may not know, aware of the 'Camp for Climate Action', occurring near heathrow on 14th to 21st of this month.  The aim will be, quite simply to raise awareness and halt the harmful and uncompromising growth of the aviation industry. Hundreds of protesters will arrive at the, as yet undisclosed location by the airport for a week of festival- combining fun with workshops, talks and peaceful direct action. Opposing the hypocritical mechanisms the government has put in place to sustain economic growth while putting all of our lives at stake.
The facts are here, the time for acting on our intentions has arrived and we don't have the time we'd all like to prepare for the sudden shift in lifestyle and social norms inevitably on their way. Flying has to go. Government initiatives suggest that we change our light bulbs and install rain water collecting systems to lower our carbon foot prints while the cost of flying drops every year and every year the damage we do to the atmosphere increases.
We need the government to act, but this camp will be an attempt to push from the bottom up. Already the injunction taken out against the protest has shown just how  much BAA are panicking, we have the ability to make a milestone change here and this week at the big green has instilled a real faith that the movement is stronger now than ever, but not only that, we are seeing the scales beginning to tip as the gap between skeptisism and plain fact narrows. Climate change is happening now, what we do now decides what the future holds. those that came before us didn't know the problem, those that come after us will have severely limited options. We have both the power and responsibility to make a radically better world.
By uniting in collective action this summer we can begin to make it happen.

So i invite you to check out the website for more infomation; www.climatecamp.org.uk
and join the camp if you can muster the time and energy to get to heathrow. If you are flying during those dates,  the true target is the industry, not the individual. The message remains the same- we can all make a difference whether within a massive organisation, or the government, or just one person with the power to act.  :)

Thank you for reading, hope you're all well.
~Lewis


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