'Letters from the Global South' Exhibition at West Ealing Library
Images from communities most vulnerable to climate change
Schoolchildren in India hold up posters about climate change
February 6, 2025
‘Letters from the Global South’, a new exhibition currently being held at West Ealing Library.
Running until 23 February, it features imagery taken by everyday people in areas most vulnerable to environmental destruction going about their lives.
The posters are the result of a project by Zero Hour, the campaign group behind the Climate and Nature Bill, and Muslims Declare, a group of Muslims concerned that world leaders are putting communities at risk by failing to act swiftly on climate change.
The organisers say, “We asked children, parents, teachers and climate campaigners around the world to tell us how the climate and nature crisis is affecting their lives. We received handwritten letters, emails, photos and drawings from children and adults living in countries and communities experiencing the very real impacts of climate change and environmental destruction.”
The exhibition has already visited mosques, churches, universities, schools, community centres and events in several cities across the UK and has been brought to the area by Ealing Friends of the Earth.
A spokesperson for the group said, “The message could not be more timely given the government’s recent decision to expand aviation – one of the major sources of the emissions that are trashing the environment, and yet benefits only a small minority of the World’s population, eighty percent of whom have never been in a plane.”
After it’s stay at West Ealing Library, the group plan to tour it around other locations in the borough.
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