Just Stop Oil is staying busy. Just one day after attacking Stonehenge, a famous prehistoric monument declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, two protesters from the British environmental groupJennifer Kowalski, 28, and Cole Macdonald, 22, broke into a private aerodrome Stansted Airport VIP.
The couple tried to rob Taylor Swift’s plane, as the pop star plans to perform in the wembley stadium on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of this week, as part of their Eras Tour world tour.
Not finding the plane, they painted two other planes with fire extinguishers filled with orange paint.
Cole Macdonald said: “We live in two worlds: one in which billionaires live in luxury, able to fly in private jets, and another in which they impose uninhabitable conditions to countless millions of people. Meanwhile, this system that is allowing a few to accumulate a extreme wealthto the detriment of everyone else, is destroying the conditions necessary to sustain the human life in an endless cruel summer that rapidly accelerates.”
“Billionaires are not untouchable, climate collapse will affect each and every one of us,” Macdonald concluded.
Yesterday, the campaign group confirmed that a couple of its activistscalled by the group Niamh Lynch, 21, and Rajan Naidu, 73, had “decorated Stonehenge with orange powder paint” a day before the summer solstice. They did this to demand that the next UK Government make a legal commitment to phase out fossil fuels by 2030.
The images were published on social networks, where the group claimed that they had used “orange corn flour” so that it would “soon disappear with the rain.”
English Heritage declared the incident “extremely disturbing” and has instructed its curators to investigate. the extent of the damage. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak condemned the attack as a “shameful act of vandalism against one of the oldest and most important monuments of the UK and the world,” while Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer said “the damage caused to Stonehenge is outrageous.” “Just Stop oil is pathetic,” Starmer continued. “Those responsible must face the full weight of the law”.
Just Stop Oil has warned there will be “resistance” this summer if the Government does not take “significant action”. “While the Governments They allow oil corporations to roam freely destroying our communities, the actions of individuals mean very little,” the group said. “That’s why Just Stop Oil is demanding that our next Government sign a legally binding treaty to phase out fossil fuels by 2030.
“If they do not stand up for the people they represent, Just Stop Oil supporters, along with citizens of Austria, Canada, Norway, the Netherlands and Switzerland, will join the resistance this summer, if their own governments do not take meaningful action.”
