10th Sept. 2024: HXR joins XR in hard-hitting photo exhibition at JPM Morgan’s ‘Sustainability Department’ in Dorset

HXR joined Extinction Rebellion activists at an exhibition of photographs by world-renowned climate photographer Gideon Mendel, outside the ‘Sustainability Department’ of Global investment bank JP Morgan in Bournemouth, Dorset. JP Morgan is one of the biggest funders of climate breakdown, having funnelled a horrifying $434 billion into the fossil fuel industry since governments pledged to tackle the accelerating climate and ecological crisis with the Paris Agreement in 2015.

The exhibition included photographs showing real climate damage of flooding from the UK and around the world alongside images of children from Devon holding signs asking if their favourite places would be underwater when they are 40.

The protestors hope that the photo exhibition will stir the consciences of at least a few of the JPM executives and make them question the morality of funding a climate crisis that scientists say is on course to cause the literal end of the world as we know it. They aimed to show that the decisions that people make from the comfort of their plush offices at JP Morgan, have massive consequences everywhere, now and for centuries to come. At a time when we need to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions, JP Morgan are criminally bankrolling ever greater emissions. This is clearly wrong and should have legal consequences. It must be challenged.

Similar actions took place outside JP Morgan’s Canary Wharf and Embankment offices in June this year to coincide with the trial of six health-workers for cracking windows at Canary Wharf on the hottest day the UK has ever recorded.