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Peter Cole, 76, and Marko Stepanov, 67, began
their hunger strike last month in a bid to highlight the gravity
of the threat to humanity from climate change.
"I wanted to come today, to stand in solidarity with Professor
Peter Cole and Marko Stepanov, who have been on hunger strike
for three weeks, asking our government and all political parties
for stronger commitments for the climate," Cole said.
"These 76 and 67 year old grandfathers – and hundreds of other
hunger strikers around the world – feel so desperate about the
climate crisis that they risk damaging their own health on
behalf of younger generations," Cole said in a statement.
Extinction Rebellion wants to challenge the political, economic
and social structure of the modern world in time to avert the
worst devastation outlined by scientists studying climate
change.
The group advocates non-violent civil disobedience to force
governments to reduce carbon emissions and avert what it says is
a global climate crisis that will bring starvation, floods,
wildfires and social collapse.
Scouted on a London street in 2002 at age 14 and featured on the
cover of British Vogue at age 16, Cole became a fixture on
catwalks and in fashion magazines with her trademark red hair
and then in films such as “Snow White and the Huntsman.”
She obtained her degree from Cambridge University with top
grades.
(Writing by Guy Faulconbridge, editing by Estelle Shirbon)
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