Help, we need everybody!

Following the sound of drums, we found ourselves on Regent Street, in the middle of an Extinction Rebellion 'Enough is Enough' march. Extinction Rebellion, as you no doubt know, is a global environmental movement, mainly using non-violent civil disobedience to compel governments to take action to stop us reaching the tipping point of climate change, biodiversity loss and the risk of social and ecological collapse. Hundreds of activists were marching through London, I think hoping to recruit more people to the cause. They did appear to be a diverse bunch, with a few hippy-looking (what we would have at one time called) eco-warriors among them but many older people and families with children. It is a wide movement. It was quite a fun atmosphere, seemingly peaceful and good-natured, despite the dozen or so police vans tailing them, presumably there to incarcerate anyone arrested. I pretty much support what they are doing. We definitely need governments and big business to commit to some radical measures, both grand and small, before it gets too late (if it isn't too late already). It seems they won't act without being pressured.