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Bromley group hits the streets to protest climate change - Bromley Borough News

BROMLEY peace campaigners joined thousands in central London on Saturday to protest about climate justice.  
Environmental campaigners, celebrities and broadcasters including Sir David Attenborough have warned that climate change is the biggest and most serious threat we have ever faced.
Ann Garrett the secretary of Bromley Borough CND said: “We are at the edge of the abyss, climate change knows no borders, we are all under this threat. Time for talking and making promises has passed. It is high time governments around the world including ours in the UK took decisive and concerted action to phase out fossil fuel and reduce CO2 emissions.”
“Our children and grandchildren do not need expensive, illegal and immoral nuclear weapons, they need a healthy stable environment for their own children.”

Bromley CND campaigners believe the British government should ‘fulfil its obligations under the Non Proliferation Treaty by actively disarming and eventually forfeiting Trident nuclear arsenal’. They believe the billions of pounds used for possessing and maintaining weapons is better off being spent on public services and on countering climate change.
Protests took place around the world for the cause, on the eve of COP24 Climate Summit in Poland in an attempt to spread awareness.



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