Stop Oil activist outside Portsmouth Civic Office

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00:00 Okay, so I'm Paul Bleach, I'm 56 years of age and I've lived in Portsmouth all my life.

00:06 I've started this, it's my Greta Thunberg style protest outside the Portsmouth Civic

00:14 offices, which I've been doing this in my eighth week now and I plan to continue for

00:21 as long as needed to create awareness of the current climate change problems that we face.

00:29 So with regards to response, when people engage, and I also know this from another campaign

00:42 that I do, I go knocking, I go reaching out, knocking doors, asking, enquiring if people

00:48 have climate concerns and what I find mostly is that people feel powerless, they feel what's

00:58 the point and they either are incredibly afraid and anxious or they continue their life, they

01:08 just continue their life because there's nothing they can do about it.

01:13 Now I firmly believe that our government, any government, local council, their number

01:20 one duty towards their community is a duty of care.

01:26 So yes, the response is becoming, people are engaging a lot more, the more weeks I turn

01:33 up and the popular part of the conversation is how can we change this when we've got

01:44 a system that's not taking the problem.

01:50 I live in hope, so you have to have hope and doing something I think strengthens one's

01:57 hope.

01:58 So I personally, being here, I hope to cause a change within the system at some point through

02:07 engagement with many, including the council, but I hope to encourage hope within the community

02:18 and they can do that by starting to join me every Friday, I'll be here from 10 till 5

02:24 o'clock so if they can support me for an hour then we can expand on hope.

02:31 Thanks.

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