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STROUD GREENS ACTION IN THE RAIN |
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 10th December 2007
In Stroud over ten Green party members held an action in the High
Street using an enormous six foot diameter balloon to highlight our use
of CO2. The action was timed to coincide with events in more than 50
countries to call for action on climate change.
Other Green party activists from across the County joined the Climate Change march in London on Saturday with well over 6,000 others. Two coaches joined the march from Gloucestershire with 75 Green party, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace members along with other climate change campaigners from Gloucestershire (see separate news release sent earlier).
Clare Sheridan, a Stonehouse Town councillor and Green party member who organised the event, said: "Latest research shows our emissions have risen 19% since 1990 yet we must make cuts. This Stroud event like the others across the world is about calling on our political leaders to take action. We can and must all cut our emissions but we cannot make enough meaningful reductions by our own individual efforts alone - these efforts will be wasted unless they are part of an overall plan coordinated by government."
Green party members used a 6 foot diameter balloon in Stroud High Street to help people visualise what 1KG of CO2 looks like.
1 balloon = an efficient fridge running for 1 week
1 balloon = a low energy light bulb turned on for 100 hours
1 balloon = a normal lightbulb turned on for 20 hours
1 balloon = a new plasma TV for 5 hours
1 balloon = just 4 miles by car
1 balloon = only 30 seconds of flying
Clare Sheridan added: "To prevent catastrophic climate change we each need to change our lifestyle so we produce no more than 1000 big balloons of CO2 each year which is 1 tonne. Even if we meet the Governments inadequate target of 60% reduction by 2050 that is still 4 tonnes per person. There were many very positive responses from those we spoke to in the High Street. Many people are fed up with Government talking about cutting our emissions but still building more roads, runways and coal fired power stations."
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