Climate activists block Amazon UK warehouses on Black Friday

Climate activists are blockading Amazon warehouses crossed the U.K. connected Friday successful an effort to unit the institution connected 1 of its busiest days of the year.

Members of the radical Extinction Rebellion privation the ecommerce elephantine to amended moving conditions and extremity concern practices that wounded the environment.

"Amazon claims to attraction astir its customers. But the world is it's trapping them successful a web of toxic consumerism, exploiting the satellite and the radical who enactment for them," the radical said successful a property merchandise connected its website. "If we don't code the obsession with unlimited growth, we volition not code the ecological crisis."

The radical targeted 13 Amazon fulfillment centers successful the United Kingdom. According to the BBC, those centers included the company's largest organisation installation successful Dunfermline, Scotland.

Extinction Rebellion's purpose is to disrupt 50% of the company's deliveries connected Black Friday, which marks the unofficial commencement to the vacation buying season.

Activists blocked the entranceway to Amazon's warehouse successful Tilbury, eastbound of London, with an effigy of Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos sitting connected apical of a rocket. Other signs accused the institution of "crimes" and stated that "Black Friday exploits radical & planet."