Make climate crisis top editorial priority, XR campaign urges BBC

Climate campaigners are calling on the BBC to declare a climate emergency and make the issue its top editorial priority.

 Extinction Rebellion came to prominence last month when its
members occupied and closed five central London bridges.

In a letter published in the Guardian, the new civil disobedience group Extinction Rebellion (XR) says the BBC, “as a respected media voice in the UK, needs to play a key role in enabling the transformative change needed”.

The group came to prominence last month when it organised the largest civil disobedience protest seen in the UK for decades, culminating in the occupation and closure of five bridges in central London. Since then it has grown rapidly and XR branches have sprung up in more than 35 countries.

In the letter, a version of which will be delivered to the BBC on Monday, campaigners request a meeting with the director general, Tony Hall, to “discuss how the corporation can tell the full truth on the climate and ecological emergency”.

Read the story from The Guardian by Matthew Taylor - “Make climate crisis top editorial priority, XR campaign urges BBC.”