2.27.2008 7:25 AM

Radiohead's Global Warming "Big Ask"

Thom Yorke Makes "Big Ask" for Greenhouse Gas Pollution Cuts

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Thom Yorke at a media conference for Friend of Earth Europe.

Photo: Yves Logghe / AP Photo

By Dan Shapley

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has long to urge fans to support global warming legislation in Europe. Now, he's kicking his activism up a notch.

Joining the Friends of Earth Big Ask Europe campaign, which asks 17 European governments to commit to slash emissions of greenhouse gases based on year-on-year tallies, and aim for at least a 30% cut in pollution by 2020, and 90% by 2050.

Yorke worked on the project's first phase, which focused on the U.K., and may have played a role in the creation of that nation's Climate Change Bill, the first legally binding pollution reduction legislation, according to the Press Association.

"We will never wake from the nightmare of climate change unless our national governments and the European Union act," Yorke, whose lyrics have often painted pictures of technology as an alienating force in modern society, told the Press Association. "They are the only ones who can put the structures in place that will help us tackle climate change."

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