Greenpeace activists have deployed a canvas in the emblematic Puerta de Alcalá in Madrid in which they ask the main candidates for the presidency of the Government, Pedro Sánchez (PSOE), Alberto Núñez Feijóo (PP), Santiago Abascal (Vox) and Yolanda Díaz (Add up), if climate change “sweats it.”
Thanks to artificial intelligence, the four “sweaty and burnt” political adversaries are seen on the canvas, suffering some of the impacts of climate change on their skin, such as the high temperatures that we currently suffer.
Does climate change sweat you?, it says under the image, in which the two right-wing candidates appear smiling and the two left-wing ones with a serious expression.
The Greenpeace activists, who have placed the tarp in the middle of a heat wave and a few days before election day, carry signs with the slogan “vote for what you want most”.
The National Police have put an end to the protest and some of the participating activists have been arrested.
The first reactions to the banner have come from Sumar’s candidate, Yolanda Díaz, who has responded to the Greenpeace video on the same Twitter account. “Fighting the climate emergency is a pillar of Sumar’s program. We have an emergency plan and a project for the future to advance a just ecological transition, promote renewable energies and fight drought,” Díaz wrote.
Along these lines, some users of the social network have criticized the environmental organization for equating environmental proposals equally among the main candidates for the 23-J elections. For this reason, Greenpeace has qualified that precisely “because of the faces it does not seem to us that all the options sweat it equally.” In addition, he has clarified that they do not believe that “all options are the same” and hope that they will take advantage of “this opportunity to highlight their differences” in this matter.
One of the most critical has been the former vice president of the Government Pablo Iglesias, who denounced in a tweet the “equidistance” of the organization by placing all political leaders at the same level. “If I were a member today I would unsubscribe immediately. This equidistance is not only disgusting, it is also an attempt to take people for idiots. Luckily there are environmental groups that would never do this.”
