POWER TO THE PEOPLE: Fashion dame Vivienne Westwood turned up the heat on a “Mad Max”-inspired party she hosted on Monday night in London, with a fiery speech on climate change — after fashion, her second favorite topic.
“We have identified the problem, and the problem is the rotten financial system,” the designer said to a cheering crowd at the recently reopened Fabric nightclub in East London. “From the rotten financial system comes poverty and climate change. The solution is to get rid of that system and find a fair economy, and the first step to do so is to switch to green energy. Not only will it be good for the environment, compared to fossil fuels, which receive trillions in subsidies from governments worldwide, it will completely sabotage this rotten financial system, taking their power away and giving it to the people. It’s better than voting,” she challenged, sporting a self-made paper crown, adorned with plastic cutlery and tree branches, that read: Ecotricity, the name of the U.K.-based supplier of green energy Westwood has teamed with for her cause.
The plan is “to get half the country to switch in the next three years — that’s our target.”
Westwood’s organization Climate Revolution is also to work
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