(ANSA) - LONDON, 04 NOV - While the work of the COP26 continues, the streets of Glasgow have come alive even today for a demonstration with hundreds of environmentalists who were protesting against the military industry, "guilty" of making profits by exploiting the instability generated by climate change.
A march, led by the radical group Extinction Rebellion, started from the Home Office in the Scottish city, to show solidarity with refugees from countries where conflicts aggravated by climate change are raging, and continued towards Bae Systems' Govan and Scotstoun plants. British armaments giant. The procession between choirs and drums advanced showing banners stating "chaosclimatic creates war". "The more war there is, the more profit there is for companies like Bae," said one of the British media protesters. While in London during some sit-ins by the ecologists of Insulate Britain, who had blocked two roads to get to the British Parliament, 34 arrests were made by the Met Police.
The protest was harshly condemned by the Speaker of the Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, who accused the movement of "stopping democracy" as two Conservative MPs failed to reach Westminster due to roadblocks.
However, these are dress rehearsals ahead of the larger events announced for tomorrow and Saturday in Glasgow.
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