Stunning ‘Letters from the Global South’ exhibition at the Dominion Centre, Southall
for Ealing Climate Week 22nd-28th September
Ealing Friends of the Earth has brought the stunning and moving exhibition LETTERS FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH to the Dominion Centre in Southall for Ealing Climate Week with children around the world revealing how climate change is affecting their communities.The exhibition has been put together by the environmental campaign groups Zero Hour and Muslims Declare and has visited churches, mosques, universities and community centres across the UK.
The aim of the exhibition is to raise awareness of the cross-party Climate and Nature Bill, proposed legislation that would make the UK’s existing international commitments on climate and nature legally-binding.
A Zero Hour spokesman said: “We asked children, parents, teachers and climate campaigners around the world to tell us how the climate and nature crisis is affecting their lives. We received handwritten letters, emails, photos and drawings from children and adults living in countries and communities experiencing the very real impacts of climate change and environmental destruction.”
Ealing Friends of the Earth commented: “The message could not be more timely given the government’s recent decision to expand aviation – one of the major sources of the emissions that are trashing the environment, and yet benefits only a small minority of the world’s population, eighty percent of whom have never been in a plane.” After its visit to the Dominion Centre (112 The Green, Southall UB2 4BQ), the group plans to continue displaying the exhibition in locations around the borough.
