[新聞] 抗議殼牌贊助 環團佔領倫敦科學博物館已刪文
原文很長
大致就是說
因為殼牌贊助博物館的環保主題展覽
環團認為博物館是在為殼牌「漂綠」
抗議要求博物館取消殼牌贊助
真心覺得歐洲的環團真的很兇
甚至到很偏激的程度
就算殼牌已經極力轉型
還是不給人家留活路
Climate Activists Occupy London’s Science Museum to Protest Shell Sponsorship
2021/6/21
LONDON — This weekend, an activist collective of climate scientists and stude
nts staged an “occupation” of the Science Museum in protest against the muse
um’s sponsorship from fossil fuel giant, Shell. A planned 24-hour live stream
with talks by climate campaigners from around the world was interrupted when
police officers evicted the group of protestors from the museum.
Activists from the group Scientists for XR (Extinction Rebellion) and the Lond
on branch of the UK Student Climate Network (UKSCN) are protesting against She
ll’s sponsorship of the exhibition Our Future Planet at the Science Museum. T
he display highlights new “carbon capture” technologies and nature-based sol
utions being developed to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and slow the effects
of climate change. In an open letter published last month, the UKSCN accused t
he Science Museum of providing Shell with “an opportunity for brazen green-wa
shing” and called on the museum to drop sponsorship from the oil and gas mult
inational.
On Saturday afternoon, the activists stationed themselves outside the exhibiti
on with leaflets and placards and spoke to museum visitors about the protest.
In addition, they started a YouTube live stream that included talks by climate
campaigners, scientists, and contributors to Our Future Planet, including 20-
year-old student Bella May, whose poster from the climate change protest in Ma
rch 2019 is on display in the exhibition.
Izzy Warren, a 17-year-old high school student in West London and member of UK
SCN, told Hyperallergic: “I really hope that today at least shows the Science
Museum that young people and scientists — who are the main target audience o
f this institution — truly condemn this decision to accept funding from an oi
l company for an exhibition on climate change.”
Ian Blatchford, director of the Science Museum, has repeatedly defended the mu
seum’s controversial sponsorship from fossil fuel companies. In an internal e
mail sent to Science Museum staff in April, Blatchford said: “Campaigners who
want us to sever our ties with Shell, BP, and Equinor are ignoring the realit
y that these companies have the capital, geography, people and logistics to be
major players in finding solutions to the urgent challenges of climate change
.”
Scientists who took part in the protest on Saturday dispute Blatchford’s clai
m that major oil and gas companies are part of the solution to climate change.
Caroline Vincent, who holds a PhD in Biology and worked as a consultant to ph
armaceutical companies for 30 years before joining Scientists for XR, said to
Hyperallergic: “The argument of the museum is that Shell is part of the solut
ion, but we are saying that Shell is definitely part of the problem — and sti
ll fuelling the climate crisis. For instance, for every $1 that they spend on
renewable [energy], they are still spending $23 extracting fossil fuels.”
Our Future Planet is the first exhibition in a UK museum to explore so-called
“capture and storage” technologies for carbon emission reduction, such as Kl
aus Lackner’s carbon-absorbing mechanical tree prototype. In a blog post abou
t the exhibition, research organization Culture Unstained (CU) said that oil a
nd gas companies often use carbon-capture strategies to justify their ongoing
extraction of fossil fuels.
The activists at Saturday’s protest said that their “occupation” of the mus
eum was a way of showing that they “won’t stand by and let the Science Museu
m green-wash Shell’s reputation.” At 5:30pm they unfurled banners with the s
logans “Drop Shell Sponsorship” and “Stop Taking Oil Money” from balconies
in the museum’s iconic main hall. They informed museum staff that around 20
of them would be staying overnight and tweeted: “THIS IS AN OCCUPATION!!!! we
will be staying in the science museum until tomorrow afternoon, continuing ou
r livestream and continuing to tell @sciencemuseum to #DropShell.”
Several hours later, 30 Metropolitan police officers arrived at the museum and
threatened the scientists and students with arrest if they did not vacate the
building. The activists left the museum but said they would come back the nex
t day to continue the protest, tweeting: “the science museum would rather hav
e kids arrested than drop their polluting sponsors but we will not be silenced
.”
In an email to Hyperallergic, a spokesperson for the Science Museum said:
Our onsite team calmly facilitated some protest activities within the museum f
or around five hours on Saturday afternoon. When the museum closed, the group
of protesters was asked to leave in line with our duty of care for the health
and safety of everyone in the building. The group peacefully left the museum j
ust before 9pm.
The following morning, the climate activists returned to congregate at the mus
eum’s entrance on Sunday alongside members of the public, holding banners wit
h the phrase “Shell Out.” After the protest, which lasted six hours, the pro
testors left a display of cardboard signs by the main entrance to the museum w
ith messages such as: “Drop Shell” and “Keep it in the Ground”.
The protest coincides with a major shift in public opinion about the responsib
ility of oil and gas companies to cut carbon emissions in accordance with glob
al climate policy. Last month, in an unprecedented ruling, a court in the Hagu
e ordered Royal Dutch Shell — the parent company of Shell — to cut its globa
l carbon emissions by 45% by the end of 2030. The Anglo-Dutch company was told
it had a duty of care and that its level of emission reductions should be bro
ught in line with the Paris Agreement.
The landmark case, which will have wide implications for the energy industry,
was brought by the environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth (FoE), al
ongside six other bodies and over 17,000 Dutch citizens. Earlier this year, an
other Dutch court ruled that Shell was responsible for damage caused by oil le
aks in the Niger Delta and ordered the company to pay compensation to farmers.
In recent years, museums and galleries have increasingly come under pressure t
o sever ties with fossil fuel companies. Arts institutions in the UK, such as
Tate, the National Theatre, and the Royal Shakespeare Company, have all announ
ced their decision to end sponsorship from BP. It remains to be seen whether o
ther institutions with ongoing sponsorship deals with oil and gas multinationa
ls — including the Southbank Centre, British Museum, and Science Museum — wi
ll follow suit.
https://hyperallergic.com/658021/climate-activists-occupy-london-science-museu
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