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BBC's London HQ on lockdown as police clash with climate change protesters demanding corporation makes global warming its 'top editorial issue' Climate change protesters Extinction Rebellion called on BBC to declare a 'climate and ecological emergency' Members demonstrated outside several BBC sites across the country, including London, Glasgow and Bristol There were also protests in Sheffield and Birmingham, all attracting large crowds and several police officers By Danyal Hussain For MailonlinePublished: 10:51 EST, 21 December 2018 | Updated: 18:08 EST, 21 December 2018 Climate change activists have staged a series of protests targeting BBC sites across the country, as they call on the corporation to make global warming its 'top news issue'. Extinction Rebellion called on the BBC to declare a 'climate and ecological emergency' as members of the group demonstrated outside sites in London, Bristol, Glasgow, Sheffield and Birmingham.The group urged the BBC to make the climate emergency its top editorial and corporate priority, divest investments from fossil fuel corporations, and to become zero carbon by 2025. ...Serena Schellenberg of Extinction Rebellion said: 'Now more than at any time in its history, we need the BBC to honour its founding value to be ''independent, impartial and honest''.'We're facing a potentially existential threat to both our nation and our species, but the BBC's coverage is nowhere close to reflecting this.'We're sure that many of those working within the BBC agree with us on this, and that many more are willing to listen - so we're coming with music and noise not as antagonists, but as friends looking to implore this organisation to shift its policy and play a vital role in facing up to the ecological crisis.' ...
How can you not take this guy seriously?
He's an obvious plant.
