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as Dame ... Emma jets a gas guzzling 5,400 miles to join demo!

A quick costume change as Emma flies in from LA

- By George Odling

EMMA Thompson arrived at Marble Arch yesterday afternoon to support climate change protesters and urged others to to the demanded limit fly What Many them Heathrow each day how to she before. year. is of join many that might the Airport that their she times not protesters had numbers. the from have individual­s just Government Los mentioned flown Angeles have back can

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Dressed in black dungarees and wearing a green sticker bearing the Extinction Rebellion logo on her chest, she said: ‘I was not here on April 15 because I was with my husband because I was 0.’ The Oscar and Bafta-winning actress added: ‘I am so proud and thrilled to be part of Extinction Rebellion, a new movement that has come up behind all the old ones that I’ve been part of since I was 1 years old.

‘A movement that’s telling it like it is and saying to government “look, there’s no more time. You can’t lie and you can’t stall any longer”.

‘And we will occupy until you take action because that is the only way we are going to save our planet. It’s hard, it’s inconvenie­nt sometimes but it’s much more inconvenie­nt to leave a planet that’s so completely destroyed that our grandchild­ren will be up against things that we cannot even imagine.’

Her spokesman said: ‘She had to fly home at any rate, it was just earlier than she thought she could have. At the moment, that is our only available and practical means of trans-global travel.’

 ??  ?? Flying picket: Emma Thompson joins the eco-warrior camp at Marble Arch
Flying picket: Emma Thompson joins the eco-warrior camp at Marble Arch
 ??  ?? The activist: Miss Thompson, surrounded by protesters’ parapherna­lia, steps into the role of eco-warrior at Marble Arch
The activist: Miss Thompson, surrounded by protesters’ parapherna­lia, steps into the role of eco-warrior at Marble Arch
 ??  ?? The flyer: Emma at Heathrow
The flyer: Emma at Heathrow

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