Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom actor urges leaders to take stronger action to end nature’s crisis
American actor James Cromwell revised his role in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom with a buzz twist to protest the crisis of nature. He suggested to the leaders of Cop15 that they “stop the human asteroid” as it stood in front of a style dinosaur surrounded by images. of heads of world leaders in the form of pieces of rock flying over the Earth.
The 82-year-old actor, known for his roles as Ewan Logan in Succession and the farmer in Babe, staged the protest near Montreal’s Cop15 conference centre, where more than 10,000 people gathered to create the next decade of biodiversity loss targets. He told the Guardian: “With the total police story, they achieved nothing, certainly nothing, and they know it. I don’t know how they look in the mirror in the morning. “
He said he found the scale of the conference normal, the number of other people really committed to addressing biodiversity loss and yet how little has been achieved. He said: “No leader appears [at COP15], those who have no plan unless they make sure nothing happens. “
Cromwell, who works with the U. S. NGO Avaaz, suggested leaders return the land to indigenous peoples and give them the rights and investment to care for it.
The actor is a veteran environmental activist and has been arrested for continuously protesting. His latest recent move was to reach to the coffee counter at Starbucks to protest that oat milk is more expensive than cow’s milk.
On Wednesday, Cromwell gave an impassioned 10-minute speech urging other people to “reconnect” their heads. “We are a huge hive of conscience creating this beautiful planet and we are making it a mess,” he said, adding that world leaders’ priorities were being distorted through donors giving them money. He said, “We want to rewire our heads to get through our thick skins the concept that duty is ours and that there is something we can do. “
He told delegates he demanded that his Succession character Ewan Roy, older brother of media mogul Logan Roy, take an ethical stance on his wealthy and unscrupulous family. He replaced the script and sat down with author Jesse Armstrong to explain why the character needed to be replaced for him to take on the role. He is also known for his roles in The Green Mile, LA Confidential, Six Feet Under and ER.
He has long described capitalism as a “cancer,” saying in his most recent speech that “it now covers every facet of our lives around the world. It’s predatory, it’s cruel, it’s destructive. And it doesn’t work. ” “. Cromwell said billionaires “have nothing to do with the police” unless they take responsibility for the damage they have caused, pay taxes and recognize that they are not more important than others. Currently, they are helping to make sure that “nothing progressive happens. “
Elsewhere in the city, a dozen or more people gathered to protest philanthropic paintings of billionaires, wearing masks of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, holding banners reading, “Don’t leave the planet to billionaires,” and “companies outside the CBD,” referring to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. The climbers hung a 25-meter (80-foot) banner from a building that read, “Biodiversity versus billionaires. “Many have expressed anger that Andrew Steer, chairman and CEO of Bezos Earth Fund, speaks at COP15.
“These large injections of multibillion-dollar philanthropic cash into the UN CBD perpetuate financialization and corporate appropriation of nature,” said Helena Paul of EcoNexus and Global Forest Coalition. “We avoid them by saying we have a personal investment for biodiversity, which is for everyone. “of us. We want guilty finances.
At the opening rite of COP15, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told delegates to “forget the illusory dreams of billionaires: there is no such thing as planet B. “
The text and name of this article were replaced on December 16, 2022. James Cromwell in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, not Jurassic Park as a previous edition said.