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.
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.