Today at 5.30pm, environmental activists, in Edwardian costume, will throng Parliament Square – and we are all invited to join them, dressed as we are. Taking inspiration from the suffragettes' "parliament rush" of 1908, the Climate Rush, a legal demonstration in which some MPs will participate, seeks to press the urgency of climate change, at a time when it seems to take second place in government policy to short-term economic calculations. For while Gordon Brown in 2007 staked Britain's claim to world leadership on climate change, describing it as "the great project of this generation", his government's actions are less impressive. While the climate change bill moves slowly through parliament, we have last Thursday's decision for the extension of Stansted airport after lobbying from BAA, approval for new runways at Heathrow...
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