A group of Calderdale activists got up before sunrise on Saturday 5 December and travelled by train to London to join The Wave climate change demonstration. The demo had been organised by the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition (http://www.stopclimatechaos.org/) ahead of this month’s Copenhagen Climate Talks.
“The Copenhagen Summit is providing world leaders with a critical opportunity to make the necessary agreements on action to reduce the rate and effects of climate change,” said Hilary Myers, the Liberal Democrat candidate for the Calder Valley in the forthcoming general election. “We had to show our political leaders just how strongly we feel about the importance of this Summit. I am an optimist but we do need to act and we need to act fast.”
Hilary and the Calder Valley contingent arrived at the start of the march just in time to join a Liberal Democrat rally and to have a chat with Party Leader, Nick Clegg (see picture). “Nick knows that there is strong support for urgent action on the environment across our Calder Valley communities”, Hilary reported. “He also welcomed the fact that the crowd of people gathered to hear his rallying cry included activists from a range of different groups. He said that the public increasingly recognised that the Lib Dems were the Big Green Party in British politics and that all of us committed to climate action were on the same side in the effort to reduce carbon emissions and to strike a fair deal for the poorer nations.” He also paid tribute to Liberal Democrat Youth for all their hard work organising the rally.
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