A pair of German climate activists glued themselves to a dinosaur exhibit at Berlin’s Natural History Museum on Sunday while calling on the German government to approve measures to fight climate change.
The two women super glued themselves to handrails in front of a display that featured a large four-legged dinosaur that lived tens of millions of years ago. The women also held a banner that read “What if the government doesn’t have it under control?” in German.
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“The dinosaurs became extinct because they couldn’t withstand the massive climate changes. The same threatens us,” Caris Connell, one of the women, said. “Unlike the dinosaurs, we hold our fate in our own hands. Do we want to go extinct like the dinosaurs, or do we want to survive?”
The protest lasted 20 minutes until the police arrived, and then it took authorities another 40 minutes to unglue the women. The Natural History Museum said it filed a criminal complaint for trespassing and property damage, according to Reuters.
The organization behind the protest, the Last Generation, claimed Germany needed to cut emissions immediately to stop the mass extinction of humans. The call comes after the World Meteorological Organization’s annual bulletin showed carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide had reached record-high concentration in the atmosphere last year.
The German government has set CO2 reduction targets to become carbon neutral by 2045 but has not set a speed limit on the country’s motorway network, which the organization is also calling to fix.
The organization was also responsible for throwing mashed potatoes onto the painting Grainstacks by French impressionist Claude Monet. A similar organization called Just Stop Oil in the United Kingdom is also calling for climate-related changes across the commonwealth. Just Stop Oil demonstrators threw tomato soup on a Vincent van Gogh painting, caked a wax statue of King Charles III, and scaled the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge.
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More than 550 protesters have been arrested on climate-related charges across Europe so far, according to the Evening Standard.
