Climate activists have spraypainted a superyacht, blocked private jets from taking off and plugged holes in golf courses this summer as part of an intensifying campaign against the emissions-spewing lifestyles of the ultrawealthy.
"While I was decorating my locker, politicians were locking in heat domes and atmospheric rivers," says Emily Kelsall, who spent a year on and off in a treesit protesting the TMX pipeline project.
International student Zain Haq, co-founder of the Save Old Growth (SOG) civil resistance group, is in hiding because he's worried the Canada Border Services Agency wants to deport him.
The activists behind road blockades and hunger strikes calling for an end to old-growth logging in British Columbia say their non-violent actions are aimed at sparking public discussion and urging politicians to heed climate science.
A British Columbia man says he was briefly hospitalized on the 24th day of a hunger strike to protest old-growth logging but plans to go without food until the end of the month before joining others in escalating action against the government.
Six people have been arrested after climate change activists climbed onto an oil tanker in central London to protest investments in fossil fuel, British police said on Saturday, April 16, 2022.