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Thu Jan 16, 2025, 12:22 AM Yesterday

Climate Activists Spray-Paint Warning on Charles Darwin's Grave

Two climate activists affiliated with the group Just Stop Oil have painted Charles Darwin’s grave at London’s 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 protesters—Alyson Lee, 66, and Di Bligh, 77—used orange spray chalk to deface Darwin’s gravestone in Westminster Abbey’s 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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Climate Activists Spray-Paint Warning on Charles Darwin's Grave (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Yesterday OP
That's so helpful...Not!! LeftInTX Yesterday #1
Amplifying the discussion on climate collapse IS helpful... Think. Again. Yesterday #3
They aren't bringing any attention to climate change JI7 Yesterday #4
Sure they are... Think. Again. Yesterday #5
Spray-CHALK, it's CHALK people... Think. Again. Yesterday #2
LOL! Behind the Aegis Yesterday #6
Right? lol! Think. Again. Yesterday #7
Absolutely! Behind the Aegis Yesterday #8

Think. Again.

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3. Amplifying the discussion on climate collapse IS helpful...
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 03:53 AM
Yesterday

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...

“Last year was the hottest since modern humans evolved,” she says in a statement. “If we do not work together to rein in the corporations and billionaires driving us beyond our means, humanity will not be able to adapt to what is coming. We are on course to lose everything, and politicians are doing nowhere near enough to prevent it.”

JI7

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4. They aren't bringing any attention to climate change
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:37 AM
Yesterday

other than being clowns that can easily be used by the deniers.

Think. Again.

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5. Sure they are...
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 05:15 AM
Yesterday

Here's another statement they made that is being shared in the media (and even here on DU)...

According to Copernicus, Europe’s climate monitoring agency, 2024 was the hottest year on record for every continental region except Australia and Antarctica. The protesters are calling for the United Kingdom to phase out fossil fuels by 2030.

“Our government’s 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.

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2. Spray-CHALK, it's CHALK people...
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 03:45 AM
Yesterday
NOT spray paint.

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.
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