Editing Pete Postlethwaite (section)

==Activism==
Postlethwaite appeared as a taxi driver in a [[Party political broadcast|political broadcast]] for the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] during the [[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997 general election]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Walker|first=Michael|url=http://country-standard.blogspot.com/2011/01/pete-postlethwaite-1997-ppb-taxicab.html|title=Country Standard: Pete Postlethwaite – 1997 PPB Taxicab Angel|publisher=Country-standard.blogspot.com|date=3 January 2011|access-date=29 January 2011}}</ref> and marched in London against the [[Iraq War]] in 2003.<ref>{{cite news|last=Weaver|first=Matthew|title=Actor Pete Postlethwaite dies|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jan/03/actor-pete-postlethwaite-dies|newspaper=The Guardian|date=3 January 2011|location=London}}</ref>

In his later years, Postlethwaite was vocal in calling for action on [[climate change]], and installed a [[wind turbine]] in his garden; he wrote in ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'', "The stakes [of climate change] are very, very high. They're through the roof. How could we willingly know that we're going into extinction ... and let it happen?"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ageofstupid.net/video/making_of_petes_reaction|title=Reactions: Spanner Films|publisher=Ageofstupid.net|access-date=3 January 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ageofstupid.net/video/channel_4_news_16th_feb_2008|title=Press: Stupid on Channel 4 News|publisher=Ageofstupid.net|date=16 February 2008|access-date=3 January 2011}}</ref> At the UK premiere of ''The Age of Stupid'' in 2009, he told then-[[Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change]] [[Ed Miliband]] that he would return his [[Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|OBE]] and vote for any party other than Labour if the [[Kingsnorth power station#Proposed replacement|Kingsnorth coal-fired power station]] was given the go-ahead by the Labour government.<ref>{{cite news|last=Siegle|first=Lucy|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ethicallivingblog/2009/mar/16/the-age-of-stupid-renewableenergy|title=The night Miliband said 'I'm with Stupid, but...'|work=The Guardian|location=UK|date=16 March 2009|access-date=29 January 2011}}</ref>