2 Charged After Pouring Red Powder Over Case Holding U.S. Constitution | Two activists poured the powder over the protective case to call attention to climate change

3 years ago by silence7 to c/climate

Two activists poured the powder over the protective case at the National Archives Museum last month to call attention to climate change, prosecutors said.

The Constitution was not damaged, according to the National Archives Museum, which said that the powder was found to be a combination of pigment and cornstarch.

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ThomasLongBottom 26 points 3 years ago

Nobody will change. I appreciate the spirit of these protesters, but people have been warning about this stuff since the 80s. Humans have the built in ability to think they will survive and prosper, while everyone else falls away. We saw this on full display when wearing a mask to protect, even superficial or not, your fellow human being became a contentious issue.

It's just all so disheartening. I could just doom dump a bunch right now.

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silence7 45 points 3 years ago

We've been getting change; when the Democrats had a razor-thin majority in both houses of congress last session, we got meaningful climate legislation

A bunch of regulation has been layered on top of it to try and get additional emissions cuts.

It's not enough yet, but the operative word is yet. Put a bunch more Democrats into positions of power, and the US may actually do its part.

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altec 6 points 3 years ago

Great, so the US is going to marginally cut their greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, this is a global problem, and globally, we achieved record emissions this year.

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wildcherry -31 points 3 years ago

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Izzgo 2 points 3 years ago

Since a few decades before that actually.

In 1896, a seminal paper by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius first predicted that changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels could substantially alter the surface temperature through the greenhouse effect. In 1938, Guy Callendar connected carbon dioxide increases in Earth’s atmosphere to global warming.

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