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A demonstrator sits next to a pink dodo during a protest by members of Extinction Rebellion outside the Science Museum in London in protest against an oil giant sponsoring an exhibition about greenhouse gases
YOUNG climate campaigners wrote to the Science Museum today to request that a placard it has on display be removed from its Shell-sponsored exhibition.
The “Keep it cool” placard, created by 20-year-old Bella May for the London youth climate strikes in 2019, was put in the Our Future Planet exhibition without her being informed that the exhibition was going to be sponsored by the oil giant.
Given that one of the targets of the youth strike protests was the exploitation and destruction caused by fossil fuel companies, Ms May now wants her placard removed.
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