A TRAVELLING exhibition that is stopping off in the Dales on its way to the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow has been welcomed by the chief executive of the national park.

David Butterworth says the ‘Loving Earth’ exhibition will help keep the climate emergency in the public eye.

It will run at the Bainbridge Quaker Meeting House from Friday, July 16 to Tuesday, July 27.

Panels from the Loving Earth National Collection will be displayed at the Meeting House together with textiles made by local people and school pupils.

Exhibition organisers have said that some people are feeling overwhelmed by the problem of climate change and that meditating on the panels could be an empowering experience.

Mr Butterworth said that climate change caused by human activity is affecting the national park,not least through more frequent extreme weather events, and that all organisations and individuals needed to consider what they could do to ‘make a difference’.

He said: “The evidence that climate change is affecting the national park is clear. We can see it in the movements of flora and fauna. We can see it in that one-in-100 year floods are happening much more frequently.

“Increasingly urgent political decisions need to be taken nationally and internationally to address climate change. But we also need to look at what can be done locally; with the Government’s recently announced funding promoting the changes that are taking place in upland farming being a good example. We can also all look at our own lives and ask, ‘What is it that we can do to make a change?’

“The ‘Loving Earth’ exhibition will help to keep the climate emergency in the public eye and I hope it will inspire those who come to view it to see that people can, and are, making a difference.”