Elderly Just Stop Oil Activists Break Glass Protecting The Magna Carta

Two elderly Just Stop Oil activists break the security glass to the Magna Carta in the British Library on the 10th of May 2024, London, United Kingdom. The two women, Reverend Sue Parfitt, 82 and Judy Bruce, 85 broke the glass encasing the Magna Carta, the Great Charter, and an essential foundation of British democracy and subsequently super glued themselves together. The pair are asking if the Government is above the law after the government's climate policy has been ruled unlawful for the second time by the UK high court. Reverend Dr Sue Parfitt said, according to a press release that the Magna Carta is rightly revered, being of great importance to our history, to our freedoms and to our laws. But there will be no freedom, no lawfulness, no rights, if we allow climate breakdown to become the catastrophe that is now threatened. Judy Bruce said, according to a press release that this week 400 respected scientists- contributors to IPCC reports, are saying we are 'woefully unprepared' for what's coming: 2.5 or more degrees of heating above pre industrial levels. Instead of acting, our dysfunctional government is like the three monkeys: 'see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing- pretend we've got 25 years'. We haven't! We must get off our addiction to oil and gas by 2030 - starting now. (photo by Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images)(photo by Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images)