Dame Emma Thompson is an actor and writer with a long history of environmental activism with Greenpeace. In 2009, Thompson and three other members of Greenpeace UK bought land near the village of Sipson to deter the building of a third runway for Heathrow Airport as part of a campaign against climate change. In August 2014, Thompson and her daughter Gaia went on a Greenpeace "Save the Arctic" expedition to raise awareness of the dangers of drilling for oil.
Emma Thompson
Actor, writer and activist, Emma Thompson and her daughter Gaia Romilly Wise during a picnic of country foods, near Clyde River. Greenpeace has been invited to the Clyde River community to support their fight against seismic blasting, assist with solar panel installation, and to participate in a series of knowledge sharing events.
