Two Just Stop Oil protesters successful their 80s person surgery nan solid astir nan Magna Carta astatine nan British Library successful London.
Reverend Dr Sue Parfitt, 82, and Judy Bruce, an 85-year-old retired biology teacher, entered nan British Library and utilized a hammer and chisel to ace nan enclosure astir nan Magna Carta - nan ‘Great Charter’ that is an basal instauration for nan modern powers of nan UK Parliament.
The brace glued their hands together holding a motion that publication “The authorities is breaking nan law” and could beryllium heard saying “Is nan authorities supra nan law?”
They are demanding that nan UK authorities perpetrate to an emergency scheme to extremity nan extraction and burning of oil, state and ember by 2030.
“This week 400 respected scientists - contributors to IPCC reports, are saying we are ‘woefully unprepared’ for what’s coming: 2.5 aliases much degrees of heating supra pre-industrial levels,” Bruce said, referring to a Guardian study of ambiance scientists.
“Instead of acting, our dysfunctional authorities is for illustration nan 3 monkeys: ‘see nothing, perceive nothing, opportunity nothing- dress we’ve sewage 25 years’... We haven’t! We must get disconnected our addiction to lipid and state by 2030 – starting now.”
The British Library said constabulary had been notified and contempt “minimal” harm to nan case, nan Magna Carta itself remains undamaged.
Why did Just Stop Oil target nan Magna Carta?
The protestation comes a week aft nan High Court ruled that nan UK government’s climate scheme is unlawful. It said location wasn’t capable grounds that location are capable policies successful spot to trim greenhouse state emissions.
Parfitt said that nan Magna Carta is rightly revered arsenic being “important to our history, to our freedoms and to our laws”.
“But location will beryllium nary freedom, nary lawfulness, nary rights, if we let ambiance breakdown to go nan catastrophe that is now threatened.
“We must get things successful proportion. The abundance of life connected earth, nan ambiance stableness that allows civilisation to proceed is what must beryllium revered and protected supra each else, moreover supra our astir precious artefacts.”
Both Bruce and Parfitt has been progressive successful galore ambiance protests and person been arrested successful nan past.
The Magna Carta was nan first archive to put into penning that nan King and his authorities were not supra nan law. It was issued successful 1215 and London’s British Library holds 2 of nan 4 surviving copies.
“Clause 39 of nan Magna Carta is 1 of 4 clauses still enshrined successful UK communal law, a alleged ‘golden passage’, that states: ‘No free man is to beryllium arrested, aliases imprisoned, aliases successful immoderate different measurement ruined, isolated from by nan lawful judgement of his peers aliases by nan rule of nan land,” a spokesperson for Just Stop Oil said.
“Contrast that pinch civilian rule arsenic it stands successful 2024, wherever corporations are buying backstage laws successful nan shape of injunctions that circumvent nan people’s authorities to a proceedings by assemblage for speaking retired against nan crimes of lipid companies.”
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