Extinction Rebellion eco zealots have threatened to cause disruption to insurance giants in the City of London and other parts of the country from tomorrow for a week.
The demonstrators, who plan to wear “business attire” in their threatened protests, said they were trying to force the insurance industry to stop covering fossil fuel projects.
A spokesman said: “Thousands of activists from XR and a host of other organisations and movements are expected to flood into the City from Monday to demand that leading insurers pull the plug on the fossil fuel crooks by refusing to insure new and existing oil, gas and coal projects and infrastructure.”
More than 40 insurance firms received a letter from the activist group, as an ultimatum and last-ditch effort for these companies to come clean, and be ‘climate heroes’ or be exposed as ‘climate zeroes’.
The letter warned: “At a stroke, you would give all of us a fighting chance of avoiding global temperature rises that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres predict will plunge us into a future of deadly droughts, famines, killer storms and heatwaves, war and societal collapse.”
“At the same time, you will save your own industry from destruction.”
The environmental activists have slated February 25th (Sunday) as the deadline for these businesses to comply with their demands, and work towards a collaborative future. Compliance would mean that the businesses would be removed from their ‘target list’.
Areas to be hit include City of London, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leicester, Bristol, Brighton, Hastings, Oxford and Gloucester, according to the group’s website.
The letter by Extinction Rebellion hints at what can be expected over the next week: “There will be a week of protests and actions in the City of London and in cities and towns across the UK in which we will target the businesses that are insuring climate chaos and ecological destruction.”
