Greenpeace 'crashes' car into Reina Sofía museum calling for end to petrol and diesel car sales
Monday, September 24, 2018 @ 2:51 PM
GREENPEACE 'crashed' a car into the wall of Madrid's Reina Sofía art museum yesterday (Thursday) to campaign for petrol and diesel to be scrapped in accordance with longer-term environmental guidelines.
If Spain is to comply with the Paris Treaty on climate change, petrol and diesel cars will have to stop being sold by the year 2030 at the latest, with all vehicles being powered by electricity or renewable sources.
Canadian environmental charity Greenpeace 're-registered' a sawn-off car with the number plate FIN 2028 ('END 2028') and parked it halfway through an existing gap in the ground-level wall below the entrance to one of the Madrid art trail's 'Big Three', hanging a canvas wall around it with scattered papier mâché bricks in the same design as the original, so it looked as though the car had collided and smashed through it.
They carried banners reading '2028: Neither diesel nor petrol', plus one in American English reading '2028: Extinction of fossil fueled cars', and hung a larger one on the railings above the 'crashed' vehicle reading: '2028: Polluting cars belong in museums'.
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