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Two Just Stop Oil activists have defaced Charles Darwin’s grave with orange chalk in Westminster Abbey.
Police led the two protesters away after they used spray chalk to write ‘1.5 Is Dead’ at around 10am on Monday morning.
The group said the graffiti was reference to the news that the world has experienced the first full year in which global temperatures have exceeded the key target of 1.5C above pre-industrial times.
One of the women Di Bligh, 77, a former CEO of Reading Council, told reporters: “We’ve done this because there’s no hope for the world, really.
“We’ve done it on Darwin’s grave specifically because he would be turning in that grave because of the sixth mass extinction taking place now.”
The other protester, Alyson Lee, 66, a retired teaching assistant from Derby told PA: “We are trying to get the Government to act on climate change. They are not doing enough.”
She added: “I believe he would approve because he was a good scientist and he would be following the science, and he would be as upset as us with the Government for ignoring the science.”
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