Punishing heat, powerful storms, massive drought — people all over the world are waking up to the reality of climate change. They are angry that they have been deliberately lied to, misled, fed misinformation, and basically told to butt out, it’s none of your business. It’s enough to make some people angry. Channeling that anger.
The move has added to pressure on the museum to cut ties with other fossil fuel sponsors, including BP and the Indian coal-mining conglomerate Adani, which sponsors an exhibit known as the. The Science Museum has forcefully defended its relationships with oil and gas companies in the past primarily, one presumes, because the money they provide is too good to pass up.
The Extinction Rebellion brouhaha inspired the UK government under the leadership of head jackass Rishi Sunak to enact Section 14 of the Public Order Act, which is designed to prohibit public protests, no matter how peaceful. Earlier this year, Greta Thunberg and several othersafter being charged with standing on the sidewalk outside a hotel where a government meeting was taking place.
The defendants attempted to inform the jurors about the reasons for their actions, but were prohibited from doing so by the judge, who ruled that climate change was no excuse for their outrageous behavior. They persisted anyway, and soon a small army of supporters gathered every day outside the courthouse holding signs telling the jurors they were not being told the whole story.