The climate change campaigners Extinction Rebellion protested today at 3.00pm as they had advised they would. Suddenly protesters unfurled a long banner across North Bridge at the junction with the Royal Mile. They then allowed the traffic already on the bridge to pass and then closed off the road at both junctions south and north.
It is likely that the road will be closed until later this evening.
The campaigners are asking for governments to act immediately to cut emissions so that the threats of global food shortages, mass starvation and social collapse across the world do not become reality.
They claim that the situation is a total emergency and they demand a democracy fit to deal with this crisis.
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