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Climate Activists Spray-Paint Warning on Charles Darwin's Grave
« on: January 16, 2025, 07:00:20 am »

Climate Activists Spray-Paint Warning on Charles Darwin's Grave
Story by Ella Jeffries • 1d •

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.

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Re: Climate Activists Spray-Paint Warning on Charles Darwin's Grave
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2025, 07:02:39 am »
When people can't respect the dead, it is hard for me to believe they respect the living.  You can't use what you don't have, in this case, respect . **nononono*
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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Re: Climate Activists Spray-Paint Warning on Charles Darwin's Grave
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2025, 05:59:35 pm »
What in heaven's name was this supposed to prove...?
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