Mass "die in" organised by members of Extinction Rebellion Highlands and Islands and Extinction Rebellion Moray held in Inverness city centre
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Members of Extinction Rebellion Highlands and Islands and Extinction Rebellion Moray performed a "die in" in Inverness city centre.
It was at noon on Saturday in Falcon Square and was aimed at highlighting the dangers of new fossil fuel projects and investments.
Extinction Rebellion spokesman Allan Gray said: "Energy companies are making record profits whilst your bills rise.
"They will only pocket the profits of new gas projects whilst you and I pay the price.
"We will pay the price on our energy bills, and we will pay the price as we hurtle towards irreversible climate breakdown.
"If we want to reduce household bills we should be moving towards the cheapest energy, not lining the pockets of the biggest polluters."
The spokesman said An investigation by The Guardian recently reported that the world's biggest fossil fuel firms have 195 "carbon bomb" projects either in planning stages or in operation that would each emit at least one billion tonnes of CO2.
He added that if these projects, as well as UK based projects such as Jackdaw oil field and Cambo oil field, go ahead the Paris Agreement target of keeping warming well below 1.5 degrees of warming will become out of reach. This means drought, wildfires, food shortages, mass displacement, increased extreme weather events, flooding, and countless avoidable deaths around the world.
The 'die in' included a large makeshift oil platform, paper mache carbon bombs and people acting out death in the wake of continued oil and gas projects.
The Extinction Rebellion group has stressed this is not science fiction, but the scientific reality we are facing. This is what the leading climate scientists (IPCC) are predicting and ,if we do not halt and reserve our dependency on oil and gas, millions will be displaced or die.
