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CLIMATE-CHANGE activists toured London with “red lines” at the weekend to expose firms and organisations that profit from war for oil, fracking and fossil fuels.
Ten giant inflatable blocks with red stripes were used to block a road in Westminster, a newspaper office, an art gallery and a pro-fracking PR company.
In the protest, co-ordinated with others in the US cities of New York and Portland, campaigners targeted Parliament over ministers’ decision to boost subsidies for the fossil-fuel industry while cutting funding for renewable energy.
Murdoch-owned News UK, publisher of newspapers that support air strikes in Syria, received a visit because its owner has invested in companies prospecting for oil in the country’s Golan Heights region, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967.
A placard read: “Rupert Murdoch crossed the red line when he drills for oil in the Golan Heights.”
On Saturday, the activists also dragged the blocks to the Tate Modern gallery to call it out for “funding art with oil,” while also pointing the finger at Hill & Knowlton PR for “saying fracking is OK” and giant oil corporation Shell for “selling filthy fossil fuel.”
Anna Wild, 20, said she was campaigning for the benefit of future generations.
Meanwhile, nearly 200 world leaders at the Paris climate change summit agreed to limit global temperature increases to“well below” 2C.
But red lines campaigner Dan Richards, 29, warned that the deal was “insufficient to secure a safe future.”
He added: “Young people will no longer accept that profit from fossil fuels is placed ahead of people’s lives and safety.
“We stand in solidarity with the countries most vulnerable to climate change, for whom this is a matter of life and death.”
