Posted on 01/13/2025 6:44:45 AM PST by Cronos
Just Stop Oil (JSO) supporters have spray-painted “1.5 is dead” on Charles Darwin’s grave after confirmation that last year was the first to breach the important global warming threshold.
Two people used chalk paint on the naturalist’s grave in Westminster Abbey, London, at about 9.30am on Monday, the climate protest group said.
Alyson Lee, 66, a retired teaching assistant from Derby, and Di Bligh, a 77-year-old former chief executive of Reading council, from Rode in Somerset, were involved in the action, JSO added.
The Metropolitan police confirmed two women were arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage “with what is believed to be powdered paint at Westminster Abbey”.
...A Westminster Abbey spokesperson confirmed that orange chalk was sprayed by climate activists on Darwin’s gravestone.
They added: “The abbey’s conservators are taking immediate action to clean the memorial and do not anticipate that there will be any permanent damage.
“The police were called to the scene and dealt with the incident. The abbey remains open for visiting and worshipping.”
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Why is Darwin buried in a church?
Just Say No, or Les Be Friends?
What is “1.5”?
Darwin laughs.....................
“Alyson Lee, 66, a retired teaching assistant from Derby, and Di Bligh, a 77-year-old former chief executive of Reading council, from Rode in Somerset, were involved in the action, JSO added.”
Wow. I thought this was all a bunch of dumb idealistic college students. There’s no fool like an old fool.
I had to look it up too. It's a global warming slogan for trying to reach a warming target to save the earth or something.
Ah, so just stupidity...
Could they be any more cryptic?
If it’s just chalk that wipes off I’d be willing to give them some of a break. But if it requires chemical removal then no.
These idiots need to be spray painted
The 1.5 refers the idea held by some climate activists that it is really dangerous to have an average global temperature increase of more than 1.5 degrees celsius above preindustrial temperatures.
Westminster Abbey is an Anglican "church". They haven't been known for holding the line on Christian beliefs.
Not a favorite quote of the "social Darwinists" whose easy atheism cannot address Darwin's own words.
FR's forum has Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical, Jewish and other religions' outlooks from time to time, all allowed for within the political pluralism of both our nation and the Robinsons' standards, as best it seems. Our Washington and Jefferson were deists, so there seems room enough for those who find ways to acknowledge, as above, "the Creator."
He may have been heretical, but he wasn't a "Darwinist" atheist.
Furthermore, Darwin was an ordained minister of the Church of England.
Really. Look it up.
There they are, using oil to protest oil use, again.
From this picture, I would say “1.5” is their collective IQ...
“dumb idealistic college students”
1968 Hippies don’t grow up.
The one answer the athiests can never give is to this question:
“Please describe the very first thing that happened, and what caused it to happen.”
simple question. with a simple answer. an answer that can be discerned by “those who have eyes to see” and “those who have ears to hear.”
Idiots. Darwin would be so proud of them, however.
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