Open Letter: Extinction Revolt Local weather Celebrities Admit Their Hypocrisy – However Blame Everybody Else

Pricey reporters who’ve known as us hypocrites,

You’re proper. 

We are living prime carbon lives and the industries that we’re a part of have large carbon footprints. Such as you – and everybody else – we’re caught on this fossil-fuel economic system and with out systemic exchange, our life will stay on inflicting local weather and ecological hurt. 

There may be, alternatively, a extra pressing tale that our profiles and platforms can draw consideration to.

Lifestyles on earth is death.  We live in the course of the 6^th mass extinction. For individuals who nonetheless doubt the severity of our scenario, right here is the Global Financial Fund on 10th October 2019 :

“International warming reasons main injury to the worldwide economic system and the flora and fauna and engenders dangers of catastrophic and irreversible results”

And right here is Sir David Attenborough on third December 2018 : 

“At this time, we face a synthetic crisis of worldwide scale. Our best risk in hundreds of years. Local weather exchange. If we don’t take motion, the cave in of our civilisations and the extinction of a lot of the flora and fauna is at the horizon.” 

Local weather exchange is occurring sooner and extra furiously than was once predicted; hundreds of thousands of individuals are struggling, leaving their houses and arriving on our borders as refugees. 

Along those people who find themselves already paying the cost for our fossil fuelled economic system, there are literally thousands of kids – known as to motion via Greta Thunberg – who’re begging us, the folks with energy and affect, to get up and combat for his or her already devastated long term.

We can not forget about their name.  Although via answering them we put ourselves to your firing line.

The tales that you simply write calling us local weather hypocrites won’t silence us.  

The media exists to inform the general public the reality. At this time there hasn’t ever been a extra pressing want so that you can train yourselves at the CEE (Local weather and Ecological Emergency) and to make use of your voices to succeed in new audiences with the reality. 

We invite all other folks with platforms and profiles to enroll in us and transfer past worry, to make use of your voices fearlessly to enlarge the true tale.
Hundreds of unusual individuals are risking their freedom via participating in non-violent civil disobedience.  We’ve been impressed via their braveness to talk out and sign up for them. We beg you to do the similar.

With love,

Riz Ahmed (actor), Simon Amstell (comedien), Mel B – Spice Ladies (musician), Matt Berry (actor), Melanie Blatt – All Saints (musician), Baroness Rosie Boycott, Rory Bremner (comedien), Tom Burke (actor), David Byrne – Speaking Heads (musician),  Peter Capaldi (actor), Jake Chapman (artist), Mary Charteris (style / musician/ DJ), Grace Chatto – Blank Bandit (musician), Adam Clayton – U2 (musician), Jarvis Cocker (musician), Lily Cole (actor & style), Steve Coogan (actor), Laura Crane (professional surfer & style), Alfonso Cuaron (director), Benedict Cumberbatch (actor), Stephen Daldry (director), Poppy Delevingne (actor / style), Jeremy Deller (artist), Emily Eavis (Glastonbury Competition), Katy England (model stylist), Brian Eno (musician),  Paapa Essiedu (actor), Livia Firth (Eco Age – founder), Jerome Flynn (actor), Stephen Frears (director), Bella Freud (dressmaker), Sonia Friedman OBE (manufacturer), Neil Gaiman (creator), Bob Geldof (musician and campaigner), Aileen Getty (activist and philanthropist),  Simon Inexperienced – Bonobo (musician), Natalie Imbruglia (singer), Helena Kennedy QC, Idris Khan OBE (artist), Vanessa Kirby (actor), Nan Goldin (artist), Antony Gormley (artist), Jack and Finn Harries (film-makers and influencers), MJ Harper (dancer), Paul and Phil Hartnoll – Orbital (musicians), Lena Headly (actor), Imogen Heap (musician), Dr. Pam Hogg (model dressmaker), Jon Hopkins (musician), Nick Hornby (creator), Julietthe Larthe (manufacturer), Jude Legislation (actor), Howard and Man Lawrence – Disclosure (musicians), Daisy Lowe (style), Phil Manzanera – Roxy Tune (musician), Simon McBurney OBE (theatre maker), Ian McEwan (creator), Fernando Meirelles (director), Sienna Miller (actor), George Monbiot (journalist), David Morrissey (actor), Sir Michael and Woman Clare Morpurgo (creator), Sophie Muller (director), Robert Del Naja – Huge Assault (musician), Andrea (Andi) Oliver (TV chef), Chris Packham (conservationist), Amanda Palmer (musician), Cornelia Ann Parker OBE (artist), Invoice Paterson (actor), Caius Pawson (Younger Turks – Founder and XL Recordings – A&R Director), Grayson Perry (artist & broadcaster),  Gilles Peterson (DJ & broadcaster), Yannis Philippakis and Edwin Congreave – Foals (musicians), Jason Pierce – Spiritualized (musician), Heydon Prowse (creator and director), Jonathan Pryce (actor), Gareth Pugh (dressmaker), Sir Mark Rylance (actor), Nitin Sawney (musician), Tracey Seaward (movie manufacturer), Wilf Scolding (actor), Alison Steadman (actor), Juliet Stevenson (actor), Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi (Preen via Thornton Bregazzi, designers), Geoff Travis (Tough Industry, founder), Gavin Turk (artist), Mark Wallinger (artist), Ruby Wax (creator, performer and comic), Rowan Williams (theologian), Jaime Winstone (actor), Ray Winstone (actor), Jeanette Winterstone (creator), Thom Yorke (musician), Dan Haggis, Matthew Murphy & Tord Øverland Knudsen – The Wombats (musicians), Deborah Curtis (artist),   and Woman Clare Morpurgo, Geoff Jukes (song supervisor), Joe Murphy (playwright), David Lan (theatre creator and manufacturer), Alice Aedy (photographer), Kate Fahy (actor), Fay Milton – Savages (musician), Johnny Flynn (actor and musician), William Rees – Thriller Jets (musician), Flowers Starkey (floral artist), MJ Delaney (director), Brian Ogle (architect),James Suckling (model guide), Miquita Oliver (presenter), A Fletcher Cowan (presenter), Eliza Caird (musician), Lee Sharrock (PR and curator), Joe Robertson (playwright), Olivia Calverley (TV manufacturer), Tia Grazette (ingenious director), Sam Conniff (writer and pirate), Stefan Bartlett (dressmaker), Matt Lambert (artist), J. Doyne Farmer (Baillie Gifford Professor, Mathematical Institute, College of Oxford), Carolyn Benson (Benson Studios Inner Design), Georgina Goodwin (broadcaster), Jon McClure – Reverend and the Makers (musician), Ruth Daniel (cultural manufacturer), David Graeber (anthropologist and creator), George Hencken (movie maker), Ebe Oke (musician), Evgeny Morozov (creator), Anthony Barnett, (Co-Founder, openDemocracy), Henry Porter (novelist), Warren Ellis – Nick Cave and The Unhealthy Seeds (musician), Jonathan Reekie (Somerset Space, director), Theresa Boden (actor/creator), Nick Welsh (dressmaker/manufacturer), Louis Savage (A&R rep), Man Status (economist), Pippa Small MBE (dressmaker), Peter Marston (dressmaker), Richard Sennett OBE FBA, Clare Kenny (musician), Ginevra Elkann (director), John Reynolds (song manufacturer), Laurence Bell (Domino Data, founder), Margy Fenwick (panorama gardener), Seb Rochford (musician), Nick Laird-Clowes (musician), Roman Krznaric (thinker), Will McEwan (scientist), Beth Orton (musician), Crack of dawn Starin (anthropologist), Charlotte Trench (actor and director), Jonathan Glazer (director), Iain Forsyth (artist), Jane Pollard (artist), Ian Rickson (director),Sam Lee (musician), ​David Lan – ​DL (manufacturer and creator), Liz Jensen (writer), Michael Pawlyn (architect), Simon Stephens (playwrite), Kobi Prempeh (curator), Steve Tompkins (architect), Annie Morris (artist), Conrad Shawcross (artist), Mira Calix (artist), Andy Holden (artist), Andrew O’Hagan (creator), David Lan – DL (manufacturer and creator), Alison Brooks (architect), Prof Sadie Morgan (architect), Ackroyd & Harvey (Artists), Eva Wiseman (editor), Mark Wallinger (artist), Carson McCol (artist), Ivan Harbour (architect), Angharad Cooper (manufacturer), Jem Finer (musician and artist), Rauol Martinez (creator and filmmaker), Francesca Martinez (comedien and creator), Glen Hansard (musician), Frances Stoner Saunders (creator), Geeta Dayal (creator), Amanda Levete (architect) Jack Penate (singer) and Ted Cullinan MBE RDI RA (architect)

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