the issue of our time

Since 1998 I have had a deepening sense that climate change was something really bad. I joined Friends of the Earth and did all the conventional campaigning like writing to MPs, and I still do. I think that's important. But it does not feel enough. Climate change is not just another environmental issue like GM crops. It's a life and death issue. This direct action is necessary because we've got to get the urgency across. What we're doing [against Drax] is symbolic of what everyone should be doing.

— Almuth Ernsting, environmental activist from Aberdeen UK, quoted by the media at the protest camp outside Drax power station - the largest in Europe - in August 2006.