Extinction Rebellion is 'sounding the alarm' in St Ives

Extinction Rebellion have begun protesting in Cornwall as they 'sound the alarm' during the G7 summit.

Campaigners are protesting for climate justice by making as much noise as possible with air horns, drums, rattles and other instruments.

It's also a creative and artistic protest - with a large samba band and many pop up theatrical actions.

The theme for the day’s events is a reference to the fact that a wealthy minority of the world’s countries and corporations are the principal cause of the climate and ecological crisis while its adverse effects fall first and foremost on the poor who have done least to contribute to the crisis.

Extinction Rebellion has requested that a delegation of activists from XR and associated movements is allowed inside the security corden surrounding the Carbis Bay hotel to deliver messages from communities on the front line of the climate and ecological emergency to the G7 summit.

Cathy Allen from Extinction Rebellion says:

“The delegation is symbolic. It attempts to give voice to the anger of climate vulnerable communities who are not represented at the G7 summit to enable their stories to be heard by the world’s leaders.

“We face a situation of barbaric inequity, where the 50% of the world who contributed so little to our collective climate crisis (7%), are the ones facing the brunt of its impacts, and are also, as usual, the ones who have no voice at all at the G7 table. ”

Our reporter Sarah Yeoman is at the protest and has spoken to Laura Baldwin, an Olympic sailor who has joined the march:

"It's all about trying to get the message across to the people that we're in a dire emergency.

"Everyone should be here and everybody should feel as we do.

"I've read the dire warnings from the scientists and the academics and commentators like Sir David Attenborough saying we're at the risk of the collapse of everything that gives us our security.

"I think it's so severe that it can't sink in for the majority of people that we really need to be pushing these leaders to act."

The protest is currently on its way to Porthminster Beach, where it will end.

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