London: Once more making headlines, climate protestors this time targeted London’s iconic buildings. Climate activists spray-painted the Home Office, the MI5 building, the Bank of England, and the News Corp. offices near London Bridge to express their resistance to fossil fuels.
Six “Just Stop Oil” campaigners painted the four structures with orange paint on Monday, referring to them as the “four pillars of the fossil fuel economy.” The group of environmental activists posted a video of its supporters using a fire extinguisher to spray orange paint.
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Demands of the organization
The organisation is requesting that the UK government freeze all new consents and licences for oil and gas development. Government, security, finance, and the media, they claimed, “were chosen to represent the four pillars that support and maintain the power of the fossil fuel economy — government, security, finance and media.
We are not willing to watch as everything we cherish is destroyed, starving people go without food, and wealthy people and fossil fuel firms profit from our suffering. Fossil fuels should be obsolete by now, yet as they have done for years, the encroaching tentacles of the fossil fuel industry continue to taint our politics, government, and media.
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How else do you explain a government that chooses corrupt plans to drill for unprofitable oil and gas at the expense of taxpayers over sensible no-brainer policies like renewable energy, insulation, and public transportation, which would reduce our energy bills and our carbon emissions? asked the spokesperson.
It is the “proper thing to do”
The organisation asserted that they are acting because it is the “proper thing to do” to stop oil and gas development.
We’ve had enough of pleading. Because it is morally appropriate, we are taking action to halt new oil and gas development. Humans have every right to defend our loved ones and selves. By agreeing to halt the production of additional oil and gas, the government could put an end to the interruption right away, according to a Just Stop Oil representative.
As they continue to demonstrate against fossil fuels, climate activists have begun vandalising historical sites and works of art. Tomato soup was thrown earlier this month over Vincent Van Gogh’s masterpiece “Sunflowers” at the National Gallery in London by Just Stop Oil supporters. The two protesters had since applied wall-mounting adhesive on the museum.
The frame did sustain some slight damage, but the Van Gogh artwork was intact.
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