Climate activists from the Extinction Rebellion movement brought traffic to a standstill in central London yesterday. Thousands of protesters stopped traffic with a protest near Hyde Park, the group wrote on Twitter. Some activists strapped themselves to a limousine. They called for an end to fossil fuels.
Earlier, three activists climbed into a tanker truck and unfurled a banner that read “Stop the Fossil Dirt.”
London police said the protest caused “significant traffic delays”. Six people were arrested.
Extinction Rebellion was formed in the UK in 2018. The group uses avenues of civil disobedience to denounce inaction on climate change. The group has repeatedly managed to paralyze parts of the British capital and other cities with protest actions.