TEENAGERS demonstrated outside Heathrow airport yesterday as part of a fifth day of an “uprising” to demand that the government take more action over climate change.

Members of the youth wing of the Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement demonstrated outside the roundabout that leads to all five airport terminals.

A group of 15 young people, all under the age of 17, held a large banner outside the airport which said: “Are we the last generation?”

Police stopped an attempt by the group to block the road.

Extinction Rebellion Youth organiser Robin Ellis-Cockcroft, 24, said the group had succeeded in creating an “emotional disruption” at the airport.

He added: “This is it. The idea is that we said we were going to disrupt Heathrow. The thing that’s disruptive is the truth of what’s happening to our generation, the truth of what those 14-year-olds are going to face in the future.

“That’s the point. That’s what should be in people’s minds all the time. It should throw everyone out of their ordinary lives. It should be as disruptive as anything else, more disruptive than a bunch of people wandering around in the road.”

XR has occupied major arterial routes throughout central London throughout the past week to protest at the government’s perceived lack of concern for climate change.

The group said that they want the government to declare an immediate “climate and ecological emergency.”

It is also demanding that the government develop a strategy to completely decarbonise the British economy by 2025.

At least 480 protesters have been arrested this week so far.

Home Secretary Sajid Javid has said the “full force of the law” should be used in order to break the demonstrations up.

Oscar Idle, a 17-year-old from Bristol, said at the march: “To everyone reading about this, I’m here because I love you and fear for your future and my future.

“It’s that love and that fear that gives me courage.”

Felix, a 14-year-old, said: “I’m doing this because when I have children I want to be able to tell them I did everything I could to protect their futures.”

The demonstration came as Dr James Hansen, a former Nasa scientist known for exposing the dangers of climate change in the ’80s, voiced his support for the demonstrations.

In a letter, he urged the government to “develop and adhere to a viable path away from calamitous global warming.”