Earth Day 2021: Climate activists dump manure on Biden White House as Greta hits out with Twitter bio

The Duke of Sussex remembered his grandfather as a “conservation champion” in an Earth Day message for his NGO, African Parks.

Prince Harry gave his voice, not just figuratively, to the re-release of a video on African Parks’ management of conservation areas across Africa.

President of African Parks since 2017, Prince Harry gave a nod to the late Prince Phillip in a press release outlining the mission to strengthen and protect biodiversity.

“On this Earth Day, I reflect on generations of conservation champions, including my late grandfather, and feel proud and energised to continue doing my part in this legacy,” he said.

Check out the video narrated by Prince Harry below, in which he touts the mission of African Parks.

“These vital landscapes are helping to safeguard Africa’s biodiversity, serving as a foundation for a healthy planet,” he says. “By preventing poaching and the wildlife trade, we are protecting species at their source.”

The Pope is losing his religion when it comes to climate change.

The head of the Catholic church said in his Earth Day message that their most fundamental teaching of forgiveness no longer applies to nature.

“I would like to quote an old Spanish saying: ‘God always forgives, men forgive from time to time, nature never forgives’,” he said.

“And when this destruction of nature is triggered, it becomes very difficult to stop it. But we still have time. And we will be more resilient when we work together instead of doing it alone,” he said.

Watch the full message, with subtitles, below.

“I’m not even going to explain why we need to make real drastic changes and dramatically lower our emissions in line with available science,” Greta Thunberg said. “It is the year 2021. The fact that we are still having this discussion, and even more, that we are still subsidizing fossil fuels directly or indirectly using taxpayer money, is a disgrace.”

A group of Republican governors wrote to Joe Biden on the eve of Earth Day demanding an explanation of executive actions taken on climate change, saying they weren’t adequately consulted on a plan to conserve 30 per cent of lands and waters by 2030.

“We are deeply concerned about any effort to enlarge the federal estate or further restrict the use of public lands in our states,” the letter said.

Biden signed the executive order, “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad”, just seven days after taking office. It directed the Department of Interior to consult with key stakeholders and submit recommendations within 90 days on increasing conservation areas.

The governors say they have not been consulted and, instead, the Department of Interior revoked a policy that required the federal government to obtain consent from states for land acquisition.

“Assuming there is some authority which would allow the program, obtaining the 30 per cent goal from state or private lands would require your Administration to condemn or otherwise severely limit the current productive uses of such lands, infringing on the private property rights of our citizens and significantly harming our economies,” the letter said.

It was signed by the governors of Nebraska, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Utah.

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The GOP minority leader said the president’s “zeal for costly climate policy” will destroy jobs and industry in the US while competitors like China won’t be bound by the “toothless” Paris climate agreements.

John Kerry denounced former president Donald Trump for withdrawing the US from the landmark Paris treaty, which the former Secretary of State signed in 2015.

“Regrettably, without any facts, without any science, without any rationale that would be considered reasonable, the former president decided to pull out,” Mr Kerry told reporters at the White House on Thursday following President Joe Biden’s Earth Day pledge to cut US emissions by 50 per cent by 2030.

Alex Woodward reports.

Bill de Blasio announced for Earth Day a lawsuit against Exxon, Shell, BP and the American Petroleum Institute for allegedly violating New York City’s consumer protection law through “false advertising and deceptive trade practices.

Filed in the New York’s Supreme Court, the mayor said in a press release that the lawsuit would allege:

Promotions that their products address climate change “fail to disclose the disastrous impacts associated with the use of those same fossil fuel products”.

Advertising campaigns “falsely present themselves and the oil and gas industry as corporate leaders in the fight against global warming”.

The mayor said he must do everything he could to give hope to the children of the world to stop climate change.

“My Earth Day message to Big Oil: See you in court,” de Blasio said.

The climate activists put a few noses out of joint on both sides of the pond.

While Extension Rebellion acolytes were smashing windows on Canary Wharf in London others were dropping off, well, droppings, as they dumped wheel barrels full of methane-emitting cow poop near the White House to protest Joe Biden’s “bullshit” climate plan.

Apart from untold carbon emission from the poop’s methane, the activists also didn’t clean up their mess, blocking traffic and leaving it to the city to do the duty.

An Extension Rebellion spokesperson told the Washingtonian that they planned to return to the scene but the city had already begun the clean-up.

The climate activist took a dig at Boris Johnson after the British PM said during Joe Biden’s climate summit that reducing carbon emissions was not some “politically-correct green act of bunny-hugging, or however you want to put it”.

Thunberg, who testified before the House Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on the Environment that US climate policy was a “disgrace”, updated her bio to wear the “bunny hugger” badge with honour.

Here is Johnson in his own words.