As part of a national action, called ‘Make the Wave’ (www.makethewave.eco), members of Extinction Rebellion in Weymouth will be creating a fine dining experience in the sea on Thursday 17 June.
Diners at the “Briny Bistro” will be able to eat and drink at proper tables and chairs, with tablecloths, candles and silverware, as the tide laps around their ankles. They will be sitting down at about 4pm.
Groups in coastal towns all around the UK are taking action every day this week in the run-up to the G7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall at the weekend. Starting in the north of the UK and continuing in a ‘wave’ around the coast down to Cornwall.
These actions are intended to highlight the burgeoning threats posed by sea-level rise, ocean acidification, ocean warming and pollution.
Global warming is already causing sea-level rises and an increase in the frequency of violent storms. As a result, in the coming years storm surges and coastal flooding will happen more often and it is likely that sea walls will not fully protect us from the effects.
In the UK 1 in 6 homes are located in significant flood risk areas. Some 1.4million people in the UK are living in flood risk areas. It is more likely you will be flooded than burgled in the UK. The sad fact is that 40% of businesses do not reopen after suffering from the effects of flooding. The financial loss and emotional pain caused to families who experience being flooded is devastating.
Also happening this Thursday, politicians, delegates, reporters and anyone else travelling to the G7 summit will see a series of banners over the roads.
The banners will be sending urgent messages to the G7 governments to stop making targets they seemingly have no intention of meeting, and to take faster and more far-reaching action on the climate and ecological emergency.
Locally bridges over the A35 around Dorchester will display banners reading ‘Be The Change: Climate Crisis, G7 Act Now’ and ‘G7 Drowning in Promises: We are in a climate emergency! G7 do more and do it quicker’.
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