Sheffield’s Critical Mass

About 50 very wet people from cyclists to drummers to walkers to a group in fantastic carnival costumes took to the streets to help people make the mental leap between extreme weather and climate change.

First they went into town to cheers from passers by. They had hundreds of copies of the Climate Change comic book. They headed for the inner ring road, moving very slowly indeed, and caused long traffic jams for two hours.

At the second roundabout, people stood on the balconies of the housing estate next to it cheering and clapping. These people have to live with the ring road pollution every day.

After this they moved to a nearby shell garage where people leafleted about shell in Nigeria. People from the Broomhall housing estate came to chat, saying how inspired they were. It ended with a fantastic tally of lots of traffic jams, lots of pleased passers by, no arrests and no injuries.