'You consume others suffer': Environmentalists graffiti Walmart heiress’ $300 million superyacht
Editor's note: The spelling of Uebelacker in the fourth paragraph was corrected.
Walmart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie's three-hundred-sixty-one-foot, $300 million megayacht "Kaos" was vandalized by environmental activists while it was docked in Ibiza, Spain on Sunday, per The Daily Beast.
Breaking news intern Erik Uebelacker reported that two climate demonstrators armed with specially-rigged fire extinguishers sprayed red and white paint across the stern of Laurie's mini-ship.
The pair, each of whom was arrested, were "from the Spain-based Futuro Vegetal environmental group," Uebelacker explained, and "displayed a sign that read 'You Consume Others Suffer,' which they proudly posted to their Twitter account."
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Laurie, with an estimated net worth of roughly $8.7 billion, was the second recipient of vigilante justice at the hands of Futuro Vegetal's campaigners, who according to Uebelacker were caught "soaking a private jet in yellow and black paint before donning a sign with a similar message" over the weekend.
Futuro Vegetal doubled down on the graffiti's theme in an Instagram post:
We spray paint using #walmart against the €300 million mega-yacht of Nancy Walton, heiress of #extintores and one of the richest women in the world with a fortune of $8.700 million fort," the organization wrote.
The action puts the end to the campaign 'Jets and Yachts, the party is over', convened by @xribiza, who demand the ban on private jets and the end of luxury broadcasts.
Only the union of the people against the necropolitics of the powerful is capable of generating a change in the agri-food system that enables us to mitigate the worst consequences of the Climate Chaos. This very week we watched in horror as the Earth's surface hit 60°C on #extremadura and we lived through the hottest seven days in over a hundred thousand years.
#crisisclimática means endless suffering and horror for all inhabitants of the planet. Neither all repression nor the outcome of any electoral process will put a stop to our determination to mitigate the impact of the Climate Crisis. We're living in it.
Meanwhile, despite Walmart's pledge to cut its carbon emissions by thirty-five percent by 2025 and sixty percent by 2030, the retail giant remains one of the worst corporate polluters on Earth.
"Walmart, Target, and Home Depot led the pack in maritime climate and air pollution, together causing more than 1.7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and 33 metric tons of methane to be released into the atmosphere in 2021," The Grist noted in a March analysis. "The report attributes this pollution to the brands' partnerships with shipping companies whose vessels rely on carbon-intensive heavy fuel oil."
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