Environmental protests in museums reach Spain. Two activists from Futuro Vegetal have stuck this Saturday to the frames of the paintings of The Naked Maja and The Clothed Maja by Francisco de Goya exhibited at the Prado National Museum in Madrid as a sign of protest against the climate emergency.
In the middle of both paintings they have written the message 1.5º to "warn about the rise in global temperature that will cause an unstable climate and serious consequences throughout the planet." "I am stuck here because last week the UN made it official that it is already impossible to contain global warming at 1.5º, exceeding the limits set in the Paris Agreement and compromising our food security," said one of the activists. He has also assured that, despite the fact that 2021 was the year with the highest CO2 emissions in history, the necessary measures have not been taken to correct this reality.
The other young woman who has stuck to Goya's work has demanded that the Government end subsidies for livestock and use them to promote plant-based alternatives to face scenarios such as the 2.5º that the UN foresees.
On the sidelines of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, to be held from November 6-18 in Egypt, environmental justice advocates are demonstrating around the world to demand strong action.
From Futuro Vegetal they assure that the objective of this type of action is "to communicate the emergency situation that we are facing". They assure that, “policies on climate change for 2030 lead us to an increase of 2.5º, which means an increase in frequency and intensity of extreme climatic events incompatible with the life of most crops for human consumption and consequent crop losses and famines.”
This protest is added to others that have occurred in recent weeks, such as that of two environmentalists who threw tomato soup at Van Gogh's Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London
