Adani’s fierce protest in London, as long as the name of Adani is associated with the Science Museum, students will not step there

These days a science exhibition is going on in London’s prestigious Science Museum. It attracts students from many schools in London and other areas of the United Kingdom, accompanied by their teachers or academics. Many eminent scientists are also associated with the Science Museum, who exhibit models related to their research and tell the students about it. This science museum is famous all over the world, and many sponsors increase their pride by joining it and also the market.

But in recent years, there has been increasing pressure on science museums to have all sponsors who are at least not accused of exacerbating climate change. Obviously, companies related to petroleum and coal come under this purview. On the other hand such companies are at the top of the list of sponsors here. With this, companies have the advantage that by joining the Science Museum, the stain of environmental destruction on them is reduced to some extent.

As much as Gautam Adani’s business is in coal mining, coal trading and coal based power projects, almost as much has been done in non-conventional energy sources, especially solar energy. The work of non-conventional energy sources is done in the name of Adani Green Energy. Adani proves himself as the champion of renewable energy in the whole world with the name of this company. Obviously they want to prove how serious they are about climate change.

On the other hand the whole world knows about their coal business, the world also knows that Adani’s coal business is spread not only in India but also in Australia. They have not only destroyed the environment in India, but they have discussions till Australia.

A new gallery, the Energy Revolution Gallery, is set to be launched at the Science Museum in London next year, sponsored by Adani Green Energy. The relationship between Science Museum and Adani is being opposed from the beginning. In December 2021, forest dwellers or natives from all over the world gathered in the museum with a request to save the environment. These people had also urged to end the relationship with Adani.

Right now, when the science exhibition is being organized in the Science Museum, the science teachers of many schools in the United Kingdom are boycotting it, and not bringing the students to this exhibition. Through an open letter, more than 400 science teachers and academicians have demanded from the Science Museum that the relationship with Adani should be terminated with immediate effect. Also threatened that as long as Adani’s name is associated with the Science Museum, the teachers will not come to the museum with the students.

Ian McDermott, a science teacher at Harris Westminster School in London, has been bringing his students to the Science Museum for the past 25 years. He has said that businessmen like Adani resort to prestigious institutions like Science Museum to hide their contribution to climate change from the world’s eyes.

Meryl Batchelder, a science teacher at Corbridge Shield School, has said that we teach children about reducing carbon emissions, we ask them to apply it in our lives, then how can we bring children to such places where Traders who continuously emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere are investing money to wash their stains. The world knows that Adani is one of the biggest coal traders in the world.

Ian Blatchford, the director of the museum, has said that those dealing in petroleum products or coal cannot be socially boycotted and will continue to seek help if such companies come forward to sponsor them.

In October 2021, former director Chris Rapley left his post opposing such sponsors and now he is also supporting the teachers who came out in protest. In November 2021, 40 scientists, including some Nobel laureates and some associated with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, wrote a letter to the Science Museum not to seek help from petroleum and coal traders. Two Nobel Prize winning scientists refused to display their work in the museum.