Climate activists to pull a prank that packs a punch on April Fools Day

Proclaiming April 1st ‘Fossil Fools Day,’ climate change activists with the international Rising Tide network and its allies will be targeting the fossil fuel industry at over one hundred locations around the world on Tuesday.

Protests will focus on the companies responsible for runaway carbon dioxide emissions, as well as complicit governments and those promoting false solutions. Possible targets in the UK include oil, gas, coal, aviation, agrofuel and carbon offset operations and headquarters.

“We are taking action to prevent the fossil fuel industry from destroying our future,” said Brian Kelly from Rising Tide. “Vested interests in business and government are bent on pursuing economic growth at all costs. We need to shrink, not protect, the fossil fuel economy if we are to survive climate change.”

Groups involved in the UK include Rising Tide, the Camp for Climate Action, World Development Movement, People and Planet, the Network for Climate Action and Earth First!

While most activists are keeping their plans under wraps until the day, public events have been called for Parliament Square (where People and Planet will be building a coal power station complete with 12ft cooling towers), Porsche HQ in London (where a public apology will be issued on behalf of Porsche), the Department for Enterprise, Business and Regulatory Reform (where WDM will be holding the world’s first laugh-in over plans for new coal at Kingsnorth) and Manchester City Centre (for a parade touring the city’s biggest fossil fools) to name but a few.

“Myths like clean coal and agrofuels are a dangerous distraction from the root causes of this crisis,” said Sophie Price. “The only real solution to climate change is to keep fossil fuels in the ground.”

For interviews, for more information about the public events listed above, or to find out more about Fossil Fools Day, contact Rising Tide:

0796 191 7535
info@risingtide.org.uk
www.fossilfoolsday.org / www.risingtide.org.uk

** Updates will be available throughout the day on April 1st at www.fossilfoolsday.org **