Celebrities back call for climate action in Extinction Rebellion video (only 11.23 years left)

Reuters via Yahoo ^ | 11/03/19

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LONDON (Reuters) - Singer Ellie Goulding, actor Imelda Staunton and model Daisy Lowe were among celebrities demanding that the governments act on climate change in a video campaign launched by Extinction Rebellion on Sunday ahead of Britain's Dec. 12 general election.

Extinction Rebellion launched in London a year ago, inspiring waves of colorful, disruptive actions around the world to call for rapid cuts in carbon emissions and the repair of collapsing ecosystems. Thousands of people have been arrested during protests.

The group's emphasis on the role that culture can play in shaping attitudes toward the twin climate and ecological crises has drawn support from a range of leading names from the worlds of music, fashion, art and film.

The new video https://rebellion.earth was created in a collaboration between film-maker Richard Curtis and RANKIN, a creative agency headed by the British photographer of the same name. It features people aged 8 to 80 demanding a halt to the destruction of forests and oceans and the loss of plant, insect and animal species.

"Time has run out. It's act now or face almost unimaginable consequences for life on Earth," said British television presenter and naturalist Chris Packham.

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"This film must reach governments and ring the alarm bell to act now on the climate crisis we are all living in," Winstone said. "We must all ask of them #WhereIsYourPlan."

My plan - stop them from making films.

[goldstategop]

They want us to live like in California but they won’t be giving up their privileged lifestyles.

The peasants can shiver in the dark.

[ronnie raygun]

For those who are actors and having great success automatically comes with intelligence far beyond the norm and a vision not seen by most, excuse me I just threw up a little in my mouth

[a fool in paradise]

Are those the women in a reboot of The Who?

I’ve never heard of a one of them.

Celebrities? doesn’t the average man on the street have to know who you are before you can claim you are famous?

[Ciaphas Cain]

Imelda Staunton played that bitchy bureaucrat/teacher in the Harry Potter movies. Other than THAT, I know absolutely nothing about these three loons.

[a fool in paradise]

I’m not a child or a parent, I never watched the Harry Potter movies. I saw the original Willy Wonka when it came out but it’d be hard to call any of those actors a celebrity strictly from one franchise.

Gene Wilder had a long career in a variety of roles and was famous (more so in death as a meme). I can’t recall him speaking on any political matters.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Me too. The names mean nothing to me. Their opinions? Even less.

[zlala]

Who? And who cares.

[Flick Lives]

Let me know when these celebrities sell their private jets. Hypocrites all.

[LouAvul]

Meanwhile, private sales of multi-million dollar private jets is absolutely booming. Our betters are lecturing us about the sin of jet travel because of the carbon footprint, but they quietly continue to party in the skies.

It must be nice to be king.

[TokarevM57]

....”were among celebrities demanding that the governments act on climate change...” And just exactly do these nutcakes want governments to do???... these people are nitwits... they never think beyond the next camera lens...the earth’s climate has been changing from cold to heat to cold back to heat for untold millions of years... no government’s action or inaction is going to change any of that....

[eyeamok]

The first step needs to be a Mandate of Carbon Free, renewable Energy ONLY for ALL Entertainment Production, Distribution and showing.