XR delivers high speed train set to No 10 for Christmas
[Vinchenzo Lullo/XR] 
EXTINCTION REBELLION (XR) delivered a mock HS2 train set to Boris Johnson yesterday in a creative attempt to urge the Prime Minister to rethink the “catastrophic” rail project.
Manufactured by “Boris,” the train set’s packaging reads “ancient woodlands destroyed” and costs “only £100 billion,” with the warning that it “will create more CO2 than it saves.”
XR activists were joined by naturalist and television presenter Chris Packham as they brought the toy set to Downing Street along with a petition opposing the HS2 scheme.
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