Just when you thought it was safe to go to a museum, art gallery or World Heritage Site, Just Stop Oil has struck again. Having already defaced Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, Stonehenge and Magna Carta, the eco-activist group has decided to really hit the fossil-fuel industry where it hurts this time… by defacing Charles Darwin’s grave at Westminster Abbey. Take that, BP!
Today, Alyson Lee, 66, and Di Bligh, 77, scratched ‘1.5 is dead!’ in orange chalk on Darwin’s marble gravestone, nestled in the north aisle of the nave of the Abbey. ‘We have passed the 1.5-degree threshold that was supposed to keep us safe’, proclaimed the activists, before explaining their target’s tenuous connection to their cause: ‘Darwin would be turning in his grave to know we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction.’
I can’t say for sure, of course, but I tend to think Darwin would have bristled at being claimed by these lunatics, whose zealotry owes more to dogma than to science
I can’t say for sure, of course, but I tend to think Darwin would have bristled at being claimed by these lunatics, whose zealotry owes more to dogma than to science.
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