I am currently dangling from a tripod, blocking the entrance to @rbc , the 5th largest fossil fuel funder in the world because decades of politely asking banks to stop fueling climate change hasn’t worked.

Yes I am too old for this shit.

We’re disrupting bank business-as-usual because BAU is killing us. Canada’s big 5 banks have put over $800 billion into fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement was signed. RBC has put $390M into the Coastal Gaslink pipeline #fossilbanks

I’m a middle-aged dad with a mild fear of heights. I hsve been politely asking banks to stop funding fossil fuels for decades but they want to sell gasoline to the arsonists and water to the fire department

So I’m asking RBC CEO Dave McKay to come down from his office tower and accept the burned remnants from a Lytton home

We want him to look at it every time that he makes a decision on whether to fund fossil fuels. We want him to agree to meet with affected communities in Lytton & Wet’suwet’en & look them in the eyes

The profits his bank is making by worsening the climate crisis have real, painful costs in the here and now.

RBC has provided $390M to the Coastal Gaslink pipeline, and the pipeline company’s parent Corp is housed in the RBC tower we are blocking today #gitimden

When banks go along with a militarized RCMP invasion of Wet’suwet’en territory to make money, that’s wrong. RBC has refused to meet with the Wet’suwet’en - they should. #WetsuwetenStrong

@climatekeith @GreenpeaceCA @s_guilbeault @threadreaderapp please unroll. Thx

@climatekeith @GreenpeaceCA @s_guilbeault . @CanRevAgency Where is the net benefit from ENGOs like this and the various ENGO charities? #cdnpoli

@climatekeith @GreenpeaceCA @s_guilbeault PR stunt with @s_guilbeault approval? (on the dl, of course). With -20 and lower in parts of the country today, there would be many deaths if @rbc divested from reliable, portable and proven energy prematurely. Ivory towers are powered by grad student tears. Not sustainable!

@climatekeith @GreenpeaceCA @s_guilbeault agreed #ClimateChange evidence is real

@climatekeith @GreenpeaceCA @s_guilbeault A top contender for the "Most Misguided 2021" award If better technologies exist we'll adopt them because they are better If they aren't any good, we won't & all your climbing won't make us Anyway Co2 isn't a gas of concern really as @ 400ppm it's currently life's limiting factor

@climatekeith @GreenpeaceCA @s_guilbeault If we reduce our emission's to zero it won't do a damn thing. Go climb one of Chinas or India skyscrapers . We need to heat our homes if thats ok with you.

@climatekeith @GreenpeaceCA @s_guilbeault FF provided all the material for you to be able to complete your stunt. Well done.

@climatekeith @GreenpeaceCA @s_guilbeault It must be nice to not have to go to work and instead perform ridiculous stunts whilst making it harder for ordinary folks to do their banking.....