MEMBERS of Extinction Rebellion XR Aberteifi have been demanding an immediate end to fossil fuel investment.
The group has held several protests outside Barclays bank in Cardigan and Carmarthen to make their feelings known.
They said that they were protesting at “the amounts of money it puts into supporting the fossil fuel industry.”
The outside of the bank was wiped with a mop and feather duster, they say, "to symbolically clean it of it's record."
Members of the group also spoke with the public about the climate crisis, and discussed what can be done about it.
And campaigners dressed as Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak were also in attendance putting forward their views.
The action in Cardigan, and a similar one in Carmarthen the week before, was part of a UK-wide ‘Impossible Rebellion’.
Jane Mansfield, a retired district nurse and grandparent from Pentrecagal, joined the large protest in London, as well as in Cardigan.
“I have no option but to protest as the future depends on it," she said.
"It feels better trying to do something rather than sitting at home worrying about the careless way our government (and others) treat the future”
Philippa Gibson from Pontgarreg, recently left her job teaching Welsh to adults in Cardigan in order to have more time to campaign for the climate.
“We can see the evidence of climate change around us, in the more frequent and more intense flooding in the Teifi Valley," she said.
"It is on our television screens too, showing more distant places suffering extreme weather.
"In chatting with people in Carmarthen, it was clear that more and more of us are becoming deeply concerned as we see climate catastrophe approaching so fast.”
Sarah Wright served for many years as a Cardigan Town Councillor, and also taught at Coleg Ceredigion.
Now a member of Cardigan XR, she said: “We need Barclays and other banks to stop investing in fossil fuels.
"We need our governments to act far faster to bring about the changes we need to reduce our carbon emissions.
"A global agreement to deal with the hole in the Ozone layer in the late 1980s was successful, and this shows what can be achieved when world leaders act decisively.
"We need that kind of action now - not just words and promises. Ordinary people need to let their politicians know that this is an issue we care about.”
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