Last week, mums, dads, carers and children made an amazingly
powerful Father’s Day appeal to Lloyd’s of London Chair,
Bruce Carnegie-Brown, himself a father of four, calling on
him to stop enabling dangerous fossil fuel projects.
UK climate group Mother’s Rise Up (MRU) created a
spectacular performance outside Lloyd’s of London (watch
the whole performance below), using song and dance to call
on Bruce to follow the example of George Banks, the
financier father in the Mary Poppins film, whose sudden musical
epiphany made him give up the soulless pursuit of
profit and pay attention to the needs of his children.
We know there is a loving father inside Bruce Carnegie-Brown who
struggles to accept the idea of selling his kids’ future to
fossil fuel barons.
Bruce, stop insuring wrecking fossil projects, you’ll see it’s
even easier than to say “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”.
Vladimir, join the creative and passionate mothers taking
on Lloyd’s and call on Bruce to stop fueling our planet’s
destruction and insure all kids’ future instead!
I’ll
call on Bruce Carnegie-Brown on social media, sending him the video
of Mothers Rise Up’s inspiring action!
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Lloyd’s is rapidly becoming an insurance marketplace of last
resort, (re)insuring projects that many of its European counterparts
refuse to touch because of their colossal climate impacts.
Insurers are key players in those projects : without
insurance, coal, oil and gas projects simply can’t go
ahead, making Lloyd’s a key enabler of the fossil fuel
industry, deeply involved in climate and ecological breakdown
too.
Every day, the leadership of Lloyd’s, including Bruce
Carnegie-Brown and CEO John Neal, delay climate action and invest in
fossil fuels, is a day spent feeding the climate crisis,
ignoring the urgent needs of all children, the planet and
humanity.
But like the career-focused, inattentive Dad, George Banks in the
Mary Poppins film, underneath the grey suit, there is caring and
willing core to every member of the Lloyd’s executive team.
They just need to find it!
Vladimir, let’s help Bruce have his musical epiphany soon! All of
Lloyd’s profits will never be able to buy fresh air, clean water,
and bearable temperatures for all our children. Only climate action
will!
Let’s make sure Bruce gets this Father’s Day
message!
Vladimir,
ask Bruce Carnegie-Brown to finally STOP insuring all new coal, oil
and gas now and insure our children’s future instead!
#InsureOurFuture
