More environmental protests in Moray planned for Friday
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FOLK are being asked to attend a double Extinction Rebellion protest on Friday.
To highlight the prospect of rising sea levels due to global heating, cyclists will set off from Findhorn village pier at 10am.
The campaigners, who are being encouraged to wear blue to represent the sea, will then cycle along the projected floodline of the Findhorn Bay coastline through Kinloss to Forres.
Protestors, who are again being encouraged to wear blue, will meet at the Tolbooth on the Forres High Street at 12.45pm to prepare for a mass 'die-in'.
This event aims to highlight the mass extinctions of so many species across the globe.
Simon Clark of XRForres said: "This protest is calling the government to account.
"People are increasingly worried and fearful, and want to see radical government policy change and action, not more calls to individual habit change and bland statements that we are all doing our bit."
Mr Clark was arrested last month during the Extinction Rebellion protests in London and held in a police cell for four hours.
The English High Court has since ruled that the Metropolitan Police’s blanket ban on protests across the capital city was illegal.
Mr Clark criticised the UK government's 2050 target for a net-zero carbon economy when the United Nations says this gives the Earth only a 50/50 chance of avoiding global heating exceeding 1.5 degrees centigrade.
He said: "If our children were sick, would we delay the treatment, given we know what the problem is and how to solve it. Would we delay, knowing we still just have time, but in a few years the illness will likely be terminal?"
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