One of Britain’s most popular musicians is getting behind a Europe-wide campaign to force mandatory caps on emissions of carbon dioxide. Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke says cutting emissions is a matter of global survival.

Thom Yorke: “We’re the oldest economies in the carbon sense of the word, and we have a moral responsibility, each and everyone of us, to not just do stuff on our own, because that’s not good enough. We have a moral responsibility to turn around and change the way we live. And the only way we’re ever going to change the way we live is to get our governments to re-write laws, gradually make us change in a way that we can understand, in a way that we can cope with. If we don’t do it, that’s it.’’

The Friends of the Earth’s “Big Ask Europe” campaign seeks a 30 percent emissions cut by 2020 and a 90 percent cut by 2050.