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Hugo Tagholm, a Director of clean water campaigners Surfers Against Sewage (SAS), will arrive in St Agnes tomorrow after cycling 400 miles from his home in London to Cornwall to help campaign and raise awareness of the urgent need to combat climate change.
by Richard Hardy
03/08/2006:// Hugo Tagholm says: “The sea and surfing play a big part in my life. This summer, as part of my commitment to their campaigns, I wanted to ride my bike 400 miles from London to St Agnes in Cornwall, where SAS are based. This is particularly to raise money and awareness for their climate change campaign which calls for carbon dioxide emissions to be reduced and for cleaner, safer energy options such as marine renewables to be adopted”.
Hugo set off from Westminster at 7am on last Friday 28th July and has cpmpleted the following schedule: · Westminster to Henley · Henley to Marborough · Marlborough to Glastonbury · Glastonbury to South Molton · South Molton to Bude · Bude to Newquay · Newquay to St Agnes
SAS believe that climate change poses a major threat to recreational water users, the marine environment, and the planet as a whole. SAS agrees with the majority of the scientific community that action needs to be taken now to combat climate change.
Predicted increases in rain intensity are expected to increase the frequency at which storm sewer overflows operate, resulting in a decrease of coastal water quality in many areas. Widespread flooding is also likely to result in the mobilisation of land based pollution into the marine environment. Sea level rise will alter the shoreline (and consequently surf breaks) in many ways. This may result in some breaks being lost.
In addition to raising core funds and awareness for SAS campaigns, Hugo hopes that his actions will inspire one or two people to make some energy savings.
There are many simple and positive steps we can all take to help reduce the speed of the damage that's being caused. These include switching to a green energy supplier (www.ecotricity.org), not leaving your TV on standby, thinking about the air miles your food is doing (and the air miles you’re doing for that matter!), recycling more, cycling to work. All of these can make radical savings on the energy you use and reduce the emission of greenhouse gasses that contribute to global warming.
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