Celebrities and environmental groups in the U.K. kicked off a boycott of ExxonMobil yesterday, in protest of the company’s policy to oppose the Kyoto treaty on climate change and stall action on climate change in the U.S. Annie Lennox, Ralph Fiennes, and Bianca Jagger joined with Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and People and Planet to ask the public to avoid ExxonMobil gas stations. The Body Shop said it would publicize the campaign in its shops. For its part, ExxonMobil said the boycott would hurt the owners of individual gas stations, but would not play a role in influencing U.S. global warming polices.
