XR Wingecarribee stops traffic to protest climate inaction

Twenty people took part in the event at the Bong Bong Street pedestrian crossing next to Corbett Plaza in Bowral.

Protestors intermittently blocked the road for a maximum of three minutes each time.

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They enacted a funeral for the planet, dressed in funeral attire with a black coffin and black banners that read "business as usual equals death".

Other protestors wore quirky, cone-shaped outfits and big hats.

The protests coincided with others held across the country, as a part of 'Civil Disobedience Saturday'.