A mural of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg appeared in Edmonton, Canada and a few days later it was defaced with a message: “Stop the Lies.
This is Oil Country.”
A CBC journalist reported the vandalism as he caught the culprit, identified as James Bagnell. He even snapped a photo of him wearing a black hoodie and scrawling the letters across the painting of Thunberg’s face.
“My father has worked in the oil industry,” Bagnell said. “We don’t need foreigners coming in and telling us how to run our business, support our families, put food on our tables.”
According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the first man, who didn’t want to reveal his name, wrote: “Stop the Lies. This is Oil Country!!!”
He told the CBC: “This is Alberta. This is oil country. My father has worked in the oil industry. We don’t need foreigners coming in and telling us how to run our business, support our families, put food on our tables.”
“I think it’s absolutely intolerant of them to tell us how to change our lives and our people. She should go back to her country and try to make her country better.”
“Just sh*t up until you have solutions.”
When the CBC informed AJA Louden that his work had been defaced, he wasn’t upset.
“Nothing lasts forever – one of my favorite things about that wall is that anyone is allowed to express themselves there, so I’m not upset at all,” Louden wrote.
“I haven’t seen what went over it, but if anyone is upset about what was painted over the portrait, they can just paint back over it, it’s not a big deal at all.”
Sir David Attenborough, the renowned naturalist told Huffington Post, Sir Davey said: “Greta Thunberg is there because of her passion, her insight and her concern about the future. She’s a political person, she’s not a broadcasting person.”
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