New York’s flagship Fifth Avenue Apple Store was spray-painted by climate change protesters, calling for a boycott of the tech giant, reports 9to5Mac.
Three slogans were sprayed onto the glass frontage of the store, with Extinction Rebellion accusing Apple of hypocrisy on environmental issue:
- (Apple logo) Boycott
- Dump Trump, Apple!
- Tim + Trump = Toxic
Extinction Rebellion (XR) said that Apple was guilty of hypocrisy by citing its own environmental credentials while its CEO made a donation to Trump, and the company remained silent on the US pulling out of the Paris Agreement on limiting carbon emissions. XR is calling on people to “boycott tech companies [including Google and Meta] that enable authoritarianism and expand fossil fuel use.”
Extinction Rebellion is a UK-founded global environmental movement, with the stated aim of using nonviolent civil disobedience to compel government action to avoid tipping points in the climate system, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse.
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