Two Just Stop oil activists have daubed orange paint over Charles Darwin’s marble headstone in Westminster Abbey.The protesters entered the Abbey around 10am on Monday and sprayed “1.5 Is Dead” on Darwin’s grave - in reference to the news on Friday that the world has exceeded the “safe” 1.5C warming limit agreed by world leaders in Paris in 2015.
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00:00We have already passed through the 1.5 degree that was supposed to keep us safe.
00:13Millions are being displaced, California is on fire, and three quarters of all wildlife
00:21has disappeared since the 1970s.
00:25This is Darwin's grave.
00:27He will be turning in his grave.
00:30He knows that we are in the midst of the sixth great extinction.
00:35Our government plans will bring us to three degrees of warming.
00:41This will destroy everything we love.
00:45World leaders must stop burning oil, gas, and coal by 2030.