Who is and what is the group ‘Ultima Generación’ asking for: the activists who have thrown mash at a Monet painting

They state on their website that they are the last generation that can still prevent society from collapsing Last year, they went on a hunger strike to protest the lack of political action They are not the same ones who threw tomato soup on the painting a few days ago from ‘The Sunflowers’ by Van Gogh. It is the environmental group Just Stop OilIn recent months they have increased their public activity. Last year, they staged a hunger strike in front of the Reichstag in Berlin to protest the lack of political action and earlier this year, they hit some of the busiest highways in Germany. They define themselves as the first generation in the history of world that are suffering the consequences of climate change, and in the same way the last one that can stop its consequences. In the manifesto they have on their website, they state that “we are the last generation that can still prevent society from collapsing. Faced with this reality, we accept high fees, criminal charges and imprisonment without being discouraged,” they explain. Letzte Generation receives most of its funding for recruitment, training, capacity building and education from the Climate Emergency Fund. On their Twitter profile, they have written: “We make this #Monet the stage and the public the audience. If a painting, with #MashedPotatoes or #TomatoSoup launched, so that society remembers that the course of fossil fuels is killing us all: then, mashed potatoes in a painting!” This group is not the same as it was a few days ago The environmental group Just Stop Oil threw tomato soup on the painting ‘The Sunflowers’ by Vincent van Gogh, which is on display at the National Gallery in London. Their requests From ‘Last generation’ they ask, among other things, that speed limits be lowered on German roads, which lack any limit and believe that it could save up to 5.4 million tons of CO2 per year. They also ask for a permanent train ticket at a cost of 9 euros. They have carried out various sit-ins and protests in front of the Ministry of Transport, blockades of streets in Berlin or of the Central Station in the middle of rush hour. In all of them, the same motto: that the maximum be 100 km/h. In the same way, they consider that the objective of limiting the increase in global temperature by 1.5º is a failed challenge, for which they ask the International Monetary Fund to forgive the debt to the countries of the southern hemisphere, because they assure that “it feeds the continuous extraction of fossil fuels”. Letter to the Federal State”They promised us, binding under international law, that they would make efforts to limit global warming to +1.5°C. But you did not do that. The 1.5°C will be exceeded in the coming years, probably to 2030. If we are expected to reach 1.5°C by 2030, what is “carbon neutrality 2045″ if not putting our lives at risk? We are surprised that you, as responsible parties, are not doing everything you can to protect us from collapse Agriculture is still unsustainable, the transportation sector is not rebuilding, good food is still being thrown away, new fossil fuel infrastructure is being built, we do this with the sincere wish that we can all have a future worth living as equal people in this world. A world where we can live together in peace and freedom according to our needs and abilities,” they say on their website.