Photos from Blackheath Climate Camp
August 27, 2009 by Rob Powell
I wandered over to the newly erected Climate Camp at Blackheath this morning to take a few photos. It’s a sea of tents and flags, with lots of people milling about, surrounded by a metal perimeter fence that has slogans attached.
It seemed quieter than I expected although I did hear one person suggesting there would be more happening there tomorrow. I also overheard someone discussing a blog post by the Mayor of Lewisham comparing climate campers with football hooligans which, understandably, doesn’t seem to have gone down too well.
There are more photos in our Climate Camp set on Flickr.
hey what a great night. learnt so much for the folks there…..
my gardens going to be a eden in 4 months!
cheers
I was up there for an hour this afternoon with my young niece, a climate change activist. It was standing-room only at the workshop on building your own (wind) generator.
Can I recommend this article from 2001, “The Psychology of Denial:
our failure to act against climate change”, which summarises why all the information in the public domain does not result in change and may even intensify denial, and explains why each of us must do something – however small – to loosen the “bystander loop”.
http://ecoglobe.ch/motivation/e/clim2922.htm
There’s nothing wrong with a climate camp but do they need to be having a party at midnight outside my window…. Surely they’re against (noise) pollution!
I am very glad to hear that some local businesses did so well with custom from the Climate Change Camp (eg “Provender”, in Blackheath). The Mayor of Lewisham’s reaction was so off the mark and out of touch.