Climate activists from Just Stop Oil painted over the grave of the British naturalist Charles Darwin at Westminster Abbey in London.
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Two activists wrote ‘1.5 is dead’ in orange over the marble gravestone, in reference to recent news that global temperatures in 2024 had exceeded 1.5C above the pre-industrial era for the first time
Just Stop Oil activists spray-paint ‘1.5 is dead’ on Charles Darwin’s grave ► https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/13/just-stop-oil-activists-spray-paint-charles-darwin-grave
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