Thread by @GeorgeMonbiot

I’ve now withdrawn from the event I was doing at the @sciencemuseum, after discovering that it is still taking sponsorship money from the oil companies BP and Equinor. Such companies use these deals to sustain their social licence to operate – ie to destroy the living planet.

When I accepted the museum’s invitation, I naively imagined those days were over. I mean, what respectable organisation still takes money from this planetary death machine? I love the Science Museum, but it’s hard to express how disappointed I feel.

Please support @Cult_Unstained in their efforts to break this chain of destruction and the greenwash and normalisation of fossil fuel companies that organisations like the Science Museum enable. cultureunstained.org/oil-sponsorshi…

Culture Unstained has obtained some extraordinary emails showing how the director of the Science Museum is helping its sponsor, BP, to greenwash its activities. It takes a lot to shock me these days, but I'm shocked. cultureunstained.org/smgdefendsbp/.

Ironically, the event was one of the museum's Climate Talks (below). It would have felt very strange, talking about the action required to prevent climate breakdown, on a platform sponsored by oil companies.
sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/cli…