Extinction Rebellion is a well-funded left0Wing direct Action environmental movement. From street theater, to pondering public suicides, to gluing themselves to things, its advocates are some of the dumbest, sorry, I meant to say fringist Climate Cult activists out there. They also kill fish to make a point.
Activists from the Extinction Rebellion movement have been accused of killing fish in the river and fountains of a French town with a bright green dye that they poured in the water to protest against a toxic waste project.
Éric Straumann, the mayor of Colmar, an Alsatian town whose waterside district is known as Little Venice, said dozens of dead fish were found floating on the surface after the protesters dumped drums of fluorescein in the River Lauch at the weekend.
“I witnessed the impact on the aquatic wildlife of this dye, which was dispersed in bulk and remained visible for 24 hours,” Straumann said.
Hey, it’s not easy being green.
According to Straumann, several neighbors told him that after the dye was spilled, a good number of fish appeared floating dead in the Lauch River. The mayor himself shared a message on social media in disapproval of the event and showing one of the dead fish floating in green waters.
Haut-Rhin : le maire de #Colmar accuse les militants écologistes d’Extinction Rebellion d’avoir tué des poissons avec du colorant vert fluo, déversé dans les eaux de la Lauch pour protester contre l’enfouissement de déchets toxiques. pic.twitter.com/U4OWxrAvu2
— Infos Françaises (@InfosFrancaises) September 18, 2023
The activist is reported to have dumped large quantities of fluorescein into the water to make it look green. Flourescein’s side effects in humans include (citations removed),
“.. nausea, vomiting, hives, acute hypotension, anaphylaxis, and related anaphylactoid reaction, causing cardiac arrest and sudden death due to anaphylactic shock.
Intravenous use has the most reported adverse reactions, including sudden death, but this may reflect greater use rather than greater risk. Both oral and topical uses have been reported to cause anaphylaxis, including one case of anaphylaxis with cardiac arrest (resuscitated) following topical use in an eye drop.”
Sudden death in fish as well, it seems.
Anyone rebelling against extinction should consider reading the warnings on the label before engaging in this sort of direct action. Action over what? Ironically,
Extinction Rebellion shared the images on social media and explained that the act of vandalism was done to protest against the French government’s plan to store about 42,000 tons of toxic waste in the region. In an attempt to attract public attention, a man affiliated with the group poured several barrels of green dye into the Lauch River. He has since been arrested.
It was a mercy killing.
Rather than allow those poor fish to suffer a normal life with the looming possibility of slow poisoning from potentially leaky waste contamination, boom! Dead.
