Until their demands that the government decarbonize the German transportation industry are satisfied, a group of environmental activists in Germany have attached themselves to the floor of a Porsche dealership.
The nine members of the Scientist Rebellion organization taped their hands to the floor of Wolfsburg, Germany’s Autostadt, a Volkswagon museum.
The majority of the eco-activists, who are all dressed in white lab coats, have been sitting on the floor next to the Porsches for about 24 hours and won’t get up. They spent the night there.
While others protested that Volkswagan had turned down their request for a bowl so they could use the restroom “in a dignified way” while they were stuck to the floor, several activists were on hunger strikes.
As they held out posters that proclaimed “no new auto plant,” other Scientist Rebellion protestors spat red ink on the stairs in front of the VW factory in Wolfsburg.
Teresa Santos, a PhD student who was one of the campaigners, reported that the protesters were still inside the showroom after 19 hours, glued to the floor.
Santos stated, “We’re not doing this because we enjoy it. We don’t, yet carrying on as normal won’t be sufficient to address the ecological and climatic problem. Because we really are in an emergency, we are behaving accordingly.
In a video taken from the floor of the Porsche dealership, Gianluca Grimalda, a researcher at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy who is taking part in the demonstration, said that the activists are there to “denounce Volkzwagan’s culpability in the climate calamity that we are experiencing.”
Volkzwagan is the second-biggest automaker in the world and the largest in Europe, and it has a significant role to play in the climate emergency: it accounts for 13% of global CO2 emissions.
The organization is advocating for the implementation of a speed restriction on German highways as well as the adoption of a pass that would cost nine euros and enable people to use public transportation across the nation.
Grimalda said, “We must decarbonize and cease CO2 emissions.”
As they demand that governments take action to address climate change, climate protestors have caused chaos across Europe.
After spray-painting the renowned Harrods store in Knightsbridge, central London, with orange paint today, Just Stop Oil protestors fastened themselves to a road outside the store.
Just Stop Oil protestors attempted to block another route earlier this month and doused an Aston Martin shop with paint.
A day after dumping tomato soup over a van Gogh artwork at London’s National Gallery, two protestors showed up in court on Saturday.
According to the gallery at Trafalgar Square, the picture was shielded by a screen, but the frame sustained damage.
A group of eco-protesters who caused a commotion by stopping traffic on a major road in Rome have been dragged away by enraged drivers in Rome.
In order to oppose fossil fuels, Last Generation activists hoisted huge banners on the Grande Raccordo ringroad outside of the Italian city on Monday during rush hour.
Drivers were irate as a result of the obstruction and stepped out of their cars to argue with the eco-fanatics and beg them to move aside.
Some others intervened directly by yanking demonstrators out of the road.
One guy on a motorcycle said angrily, “I have to leave, I’m a doctor,” pleading for passage.
However, a female activist requested that he give over his medical identity after refusing to let him through without viewing it.
When he ultimately waved his ID card in front of the protester, they parted ways.