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Two climate activists affiliated with the group Just Stop Oil have painted Charles Darwins grave at Londons Westminster Abbey with a stark message: 1.5 is dead.
The protest was a response to the news that global temperatures in 2024 exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Staying below this threshold was one of the commitments set by the Paris Agreement in 2015.
We have already passed through the 1.5 degree [threshold] that was supposed to keep us safe, said one of the activists during the protest, per video footage released by Just Stop Oil. Millions are being displaced, California is on fire and three-quarters of all wildlife has disappeared since the 1970s.
On Monday morning, the two protestersAlyson Lee, 66, and Di Bligh, 77used orange spray chalk to deface Darwins gravestone in Westminster Abbeys Scientists Corner, which is also the burial site of renowned figures such as Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking.
Lee, a retired teaching assistant, says that if Darwin were alive today, he would be as upset as us with the government for ignoring the science, per PA Media.
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LeftInTX
(31,312 posts)Think. Again.
(19,908 posts)Last edited Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:37 AM - Edit history (1)
...and they'e obviously done that or there wouldn't be a media story about their action, which included this statement from one of the activists...
JI7
(91,058 posts)other than being clowns that can easily be used by the deniers.
Think. Again.
(19,908 posts)Here's another statement they made that is being shared in the media (and even here on DU)...
Our governments plans will bring us to [over] three degrees of warming, the protesters warned. This will destroy everything we love. World leaders must stop burning oil, gas and coal by 2030.
Link to Copernicus site: https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-2024-first-year-exceed-15degc-above-pre-industrial-level
Think. Again.
(19,908 posts)Look at the damage from the LA fires and then look at some chalk on stone.
The world needs to get our priorities straight.
Just Stop Oil.