March for Global Climate Justice


Grosvenor Square

Yesterday I went on my first protest march, it was a very fine day, weather was simply gorgeous if a little bit cold. There was a cross section of society, which was good to see, climate change is one of the hot issues of the moment.

We marched from Grosvenor Square (where a rally was held outside the US embassy featuring guest speakers such as George Monbiot, Caroline Lucas MEP and Tory green advisor Zac Goldsmith) to Trafalgar Square (a crowd of 20,000) where music was being performed by Razorlight and KT Tunstall.

Whether it will make a major different I don't know, its nice to see that people care but is that really enough?

I myself am in two minds about environmental campaigns, I do understand that we need to stop being wasteful and that we should think more but then again I think not all technology is evil, I personally believe we need to get into space, that will solve many of our problems like relieving population pressure. Space could provide us a change to escape from the Planet of the Apes.

Some photos from the march



Grosvenor Square


Grosvenor Square


Grosvenor Square


The contingent from Swansea


The US Embassy

the rest of the photos can be seen here