BREAKING: Just Stop Oil disrupt West End show
The group invaded the stage during a performance of The Tempest with Sigourney Weaver.
This evening two activists from climate action group Just Stop Oil invaded the stage at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London’s West End.
The pair could be seen holding a sign which read 'Over 1.5 Degrees is a Global Shipwreck', referring to the recent announcement that 2024 was the first full year over the 1.5 degree safe limit for global temperature rise. World Leaders stated they would aim to keep the world below 1.5 degrees of warming at the Paris Agreement in 2015.
One of those taking action this evening is Hayley Walsh, 42, a lecturer and mum of three from Nottingham, who said:
"I am scared for my children, I can't sleepwalk them into a future of food shortages, life-threatening storms and wars for resources. Years of writing to MPs, going on marches and teaching my students to be more sustainable, hasn't seen the urgent change needed."
"1.5 degrees is a global shipwreck we can't ignore. Wildfires in California, deadly floods in Valencia and hundreds of thousands without power in the UK this weekend. This isn't a distant, future problem. We need a global treaty to stop fossil fuel burning and a global emergency response."
