Participating in The Time is Now Mass Lobby of Parliament

People from Living Spirituality Connections and St James’s Church Piccadilly at Parliament Square

About 12,000 people gathered in Westminster on Wednesday to put pressure on politicians, according to the organisers the Climate Coalition and Greener UK, whose members include aid agencies, social groups and conservation organisations. At least 195 MPs who met campaigners

Campaigners, religious leaders and people of various faiths, led by the former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams proceeded along Whitehall on a walk of witness.

Rowan Williams said he was proud the UK was taking the climate crisis seriously. “I compare it with the great struggle 200 years ago with ending the slave trade. Parliament took an option that wasn’t easy, it must have felt risky at the time facing massive entrenched global culture – and things changed,” he said. He went on to say that we have become absolutely irrational as a species, and need to recover an enriched rationality.