Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

Climate change protesters have targeted London stock exchange on Thursday to demonstrate and climbed over the train’s roof at Canary Wharf aimed at pushing Britain to take concrete actions to avert global climate cataclysm on the final day of protest.

According to Reuters news reports, the environmental activists have caused major mass disruption in the recent weeks in London, blocking Waterloo Bridge, Oxford Circus and Marble Arch, further smashing doors at Shell buildings, and bringing lawmakers into shock with a semi-nude demonstration in parliament.

At the headquarters of the stock exchange, some six protesters, wearing black suits with red ties, blocked the revolving entry doors of the buildings, holding signs reading: “You can’t eat money” and “Tell the truth”.

In Canary Wharf, at the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station, around five protesters climbed a train, unfurling a banner reading: “Business as usual = Death”. One glued herself to a train.

“It’s bizarre we have to do this in order for governments to listen to the scientists,” said Diana Warner, 60, who glued her hand to the train. “I’ve got children who are grown up so I can do this, so I’m doing it for everyone who can’t,” Warner said.

The climate-change protesters have in the past 11 days brought the iconic areas of central London to a standstill, during which the activists described the demonstration as the biggest act of civil disobedience in the history of British.

The police reported it has arrested some 1088 climate-change protesters since the start of the main protest. Protesters have made the final day of protest in central London, focusing over the international financial sector.

In a statement, the group said, “Extinction Rebellion to focus on the financial industry today,” adding, the “aim is to demand the finance industry tells the truth about the climate industry and the devastating impact the industry has on our planet”.

The group promotes non-violent civil disobedience to force the government to diminish carbon emissions and turn down what they call it a global climate crisis that brings social collapse, floods, wildfires and starvation.

The group is protesting demanding the government to declare a state of ecological and climate emergency, turn down greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025, and form a civilian assembly to lead over decisions in order to address climate change.

According to governmental statistics, total UK greenhouse gas emissions, in 2017, were reduced by 43 per cent that in 1990 and 2.6 per cent lower than that of 2016.
The group has said it will end its protest in London on Thursday, and will remove their blockades at Marble Arch and Parliament Square.

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