While climate change is one of the biggest threats to our future, two climate activists in London, the capital of England, took an interesting action to draw attention to climate change. Activists who came to the Van Gogh exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery in the capital, applied glue to the frame of Van Gogh’s 1889 painting “Peach Trees In Blossom”.
HE ATTACHED HIMSELF TO THE GOAL POLE
21-year-old Louis McKechnie, a member of the climate activist group Just Stop Oil, which was established to make the British government commit to new fossil fuel licensing and production, had previously come to the fore by tying himself to the goal post in the match between Newcastle and Everton, one of the English Premier League teams, last March.
“WE ARE CLOSE TO THIS PICTURE BECAUSE WE ARE FEARING FOR OUR FUTURE”
Noting that he and his fellow activist are expected to be arrested, McKechnie said, “We are stuck with this picture because we fear for our future. If there was any other way to get the change we needed, we would have done it. We tried everything else.”
In a statement made by the Courtauld Gallery, it was stated that the action took place in the afternoon, and that the gallery was closed to visitors for the rest of the day due to the action. In the statement, it was also stated that the Courtauld Gallery will be opened to visitors as normal tomorrow.
McKechnie, a former engineering student who had been arrested 20 times and served 6 weeks in prison, has become one of the most recognizable faces among Britain’s climate change activists. (UAV)