Dinosaur Fossil Pasted by Climate Proster
As Mr. Salamon, executive director of the U.S. Climate Emergency Fund, said, "more protests are coming." Sure enough, Last Generation, a German environmental group, did it again.
On Wednesday (local time), two protesters from the group showed up at the German Natural History Museum and glued themselves to a metal pole supporting a dinosaur skeleton.
The protesters, both mothers aged 34 and 42, wore orange vests and held signs reading "What if the government can't control this? The banner. "I am afraid of wildfires, water shortages, famine and war," one of the protesters shouted at the scene. Dinosaurs died out because they couldn't withstand the huge climate changes. We are facing the same threat, with 150 species going extinct every day, and this is just the beginning."
According to the Last Generation, the women want to use the campaign to call on the German government to pass more laws to slow climate change. "If we don't want to be threatened with extinction, we must act now," they said.
On its official Twitter account, the group also posted a 29-second video in which they interviewed an 11-year-old boy visiting the museum about the protests, saying, "It's important and powerful."
The Berliner Zeitung newspaper reported that security guards alerted police shortly after the two protesters glued themselves to the metal poles, and they were removed from the scene and charged with criminal trespass and property damage. In the afternoon, museum officials released a statement saying that the police had ended the operation in less than an hour and that "the protest resulted in property damage and criminal charges are being filed against those involved."
Recently, the group has been making headlines with radical protests. Last week, two of its protesters splashed mashed potatoes on Monet's "Haystacks" at Potsdam's Barbellini Museum and then glued their hands to the wall. In 2019, it sold at auction for a whopping $110.7 million.
"We're in the midst of an environmental disaster," a spokesman for the group said. "You're afraid of potato or tomato soup being poured on a famous painting. You know what I'm afraid of? The science says we won't be able to feed our families by 2050."
According to German media, "The Last Generation" is a radical environmental group in Germany. It has carried out several "destructive" activities in Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin airports, aiming to stop the normal operation of freight and passenger traffic there, thus attracting attention. The latest environmental group to attract a lot of attention is Stop the Oil in the UK.
Fox News previously reported that both environmental groups are part of A22, an environmental network with members in Western countries. The Climate Emergency Fund, a Los Angeles-based US non-profit organisation, has made several donations to the system and is a major source of funding for A22. Protest groups such as Stop the Oil and the Last Generation are mentioned several times on the website of the Climate Emergency Fund.
Eileen Getty, granddaughter of US oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty, is a major donor to the Climate Emergency Fund, donating $500,000 shortly after its launch in 2019. American director and screenwriter Adam McKay also pledged $4 million to the organization; Abigail Disney, granddaughter of Walt Disney, has donated $200,000 to the Climate Emergency Fund.
A spokesman for the Climate Emergency Fund admitted that it funded environmental groups with "recruitment, training and capacity building", adding: "We don't control the activists, we just fund them and they are smart, brave and effective." In mid-month, its executive director, Margaret Salamon, warned of "more protests to come". Recent rounds of protests in the UK and Germany are part of A22's "October Uprising".
