Green activists target Jeremy Clarkson in horse poo protest

JEREMY CLARKSON has been targeted by climate change protesters, who dumped sackfuls of horse manure on his front lawn.

 PETROLHEAD Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson Pic BBC 'PETROLHEAD': Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson (Pic: BBC)

Seven female campaigners dressed as suffragettes arrived at the Top Gear presenter's home in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire this morning in an eco-friendly van fuelled by chip-fat oil.

Holding placards which read 'This is what you’re landing us in’ they dumped six binbags of horse faeces on his driveway and in the front garden of his £2million Cotswolds home.

The police were called to the scene.

The activists, from environmental campaign group Climate Rush, targeted Clarkson - who delights in winding up the green lobby - for his "blase" attitude towards climate change.

Climate Rush spokeswoman Tamsin Omond said: “I love Jeremy. I love fast cars. I love progress. 

"But I learnt some things and those things terrify me. I learnt that climate change will make my future unrecognisable. I know that I’ll not have the same choices that Jeremy has now. 

Climate Rush targeted Clarkson for his blas attitude to global warming Climate Rush targeted Clarkson for his 'blasé attitude' to global warming

"If we keep on loving the fossil-fuelled lifestyle then by the time I hit 49 the world will be too busy coping with the impact of climate change to bother about how big an engine is possible. 

"I’m the biggest libertarian of them all – I’m dumping dung at Clarkson’s gates so he might understand that his attitude will land us all in the s**t.”

The group stopped off on their month-long horse and cart tour through South West to deposit the dung

Tamsin told Express.co.uk: "We started thinking of people and places we wanted to target and high carbon infrastructures and individuals with intensive carbon lifestyles were top of the list.

"When you think of high carbon lifestyles Jeremy certainly fits the bill and he happened to be on our route between Oxford and Stroud."

She added: "We chose manure because he says really stupid things about climate change so we thought let's give him a taste of our own emissions!

"We are travelling round the country with three horses and they are pooing a good sack load a day. It's handy it doesn't cause lasting damage because we are not an aggressive group.

"We just want to do things that amuse rather than threaten."

Green campaigners have previously blasted Clarkson for his televised drive to the Arctic in 2007 in a Top Gear Polar special.

Climate Rush say the BBC show - in which Clarkson upped his environmental footprint by emitting an estimated 1.7 tonnes of carbon - was undertaken to antagonise environmentalists.

Ecologist Jonathan Porrit, formerly head of Friends of the Earth, calls him "an outstandingly bigoted petrolhead", and other campaigners blame Clarkson for encouraging public apathy about climate change.

The star, who has glorified climate change denier David Bellamy, famously said: "Let’s just stop and think for a moment what the consequences might be.

"Switzerland loses its skiing resorts? The beach in Miami is washed away? North Carolina gets knocked over by a hurricane? Anything bothering you yet?

CLARKSON ANTI-ENVIRONMENTAL TOP GEAR QUOTES

"Now we've been told in this new series, we've got to feature more green cars. So here's one. It's really the greenest car we could find, really." (Points to a bright green Lamborghini Murcielago)

"Supercars are designed to melt ice caps, kill the poor, poison the water table, destroy the ozone layer, decimate indigenous wildlife, recapture the Falkland Islands and turn the entire third world into a huge uninhabitable desert, all that before they nicked all the oil in the world."

(While discussing methane as a global warming agent) "That means, a Range Rover, doing 10,000 miles a year, produces less pollution a day than a cow farting."

"There are too many green people and they're not buying enough Range Rovers to warm us up."

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