More than a thousand arrested in ‘Extinction Rebellion’ protests against climate change

A participant carries a sign bearing a political message during the Extinction Rebellion protest on Oxford Street, near Marble Arch in London. By Kyle Swenson Kyle Swenson Reporter for Morning Mix Email Bio Follow April 23 at 5:16 AM Hauling up the structure like school kids on a jungle gym, on Monday afternoon two protesters mounted the iconic globe at Universal Studios in Universal City, Calif.

Organized by a new activist group called Extinction Rebellion, the events resulted in hundreds of arrests. In London alone, 1,065 individuals were arrested Monday, in what organizers are calling “the biggest civil disobedience event in recent British history,” according to the Guardian. Similar demonstrations unfolded in New York, Paris and Berlin, CNN reported.

According to the group’s website, the movement began Oct. 31, 2018, with a demonstration at Parliament Square in London. “We were expecting a couple of hundred people,” the group wrote. “Instead, 1500 came to participate in peaceful civil disobedience.” Extinction Rebellion has since earned backing from nearly 100 prominent academic figures in England, including the former archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. The group says it has factions “from the Solomon Islands to Australia, from Spain to South Africa, the U.S. to India.”

The protests ramp up as new evidence on the dire condition of the climate continue to mount. On Monday, The Washington Post reported that a study shows Greenland has lost ice at faster pace than previously thought during the past decades — from 1 billion tons of ice between 1980 and 1990, to 286 billion tons between 2010 and 2018. The increase is expected to dramatically contribute to rising sea levels.

Events continued this week. On Monday, about 100 Extinction Rebellion demonstrators piled into London’s Natural History Museum, where they held a die-in, the BBC reported.

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Becoming a convicted felon for supergluing yourself to a giant globe is a pretty rough deal.

I can see the bots are peddling frantically in this thread. This is causing certain quarters to get sweaty under the collar evidentially.

Solar energized jail cells.

The Great Lakes and upper midwest was once all ice. Then it melted. Since there were no people, what caused it?

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