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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Helena Horton Environment reporter

Climate activists deflate SUV tyres in wealthy London neighbourhoods

The cars have been issued with fake ‘parking fines’ on their windscreens informing them that ‘if SUV drivers were a nation, in 2018 they would have been ranked as the seventh biggest emitter of CO2’.
The cars have been issued with fake ‘parking fines’ on their windscreens informing them that ‘if SUV drivers were a nation, in 2018 they would have been ranked as the seventh biggest emitter of CO2’. Photograph: The Last Gasp

Climate activists have deflated the tyres of SUVs in some of London’s wealthiest postcodes to protest against the emissions from such vehicles.

About 40 SUV-owning residents of Kensington and Chelsea, Dulwich, Primrose Hill and Marylebone woke to find their tyres flat, with fake “parking fines” on their windscreens informing them that “if SUV drivers were a nation, in 2018 they would have been ranked as the seventh biggest emitter of CO2”.

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