The incident took place around 10 a.m. Thursday. In a statement, the museum said security staff followed procedures to “ensure the safety of visitors,” and called police, who took the activist into custody.
The mischief is the latest demonstration by Last Generation Canada, previously known as On2Ottawa, a civil disobedience group that formed in 2023. The group says its actions are intended to draw attention to the climate crisis and to demand Canadian government action.
The activists said Thursday they chose a dinosaur skeleton to highlight the risk of mass extinction prompted by the climate crisis.
Why fuck up museums, though. You’re intentionally trying to get people to hate and oppose everything you do? I don’t get it.
A chemical refinery, a . . . gas station, some muckety-muck’s yacht, sure I can see that. But museums? FFS. You can fuck right off with that nonsense.
There’s a theory floating around the internet that these bizarre climate protests are actually meant to discredit the climate movement.
It’s one of the few that I can’t discredit outright. After all, these corporations have shit tons of money and are shady af. I would expect something like this, and of course, they would never hit their own facilities.
This line of logic is going to be applied to literally any target of this kind of protest.
Uh, no. When they did some private jets the reaction was overall positive. There are plenty of legitimate targets for this sort of protest. Scientific exhibits or works of art don’t fall under that category. These people are either mentally unstable attention seekers or actually have nefarious intentions.