GENEVA - Climate activists on Tuesday turned the Limmat River in Zurich a bright fluorescent green in protest against what they said is the"impending collapse of the ecosystem".
The Extinction Rebellion movement acknowledged on its Facebook page that it was responsible for using a"harmless" dye to change the colour of the river winding through Switzerland's largest city.The activists said that they wanted"to draw attention to the impending collapse of the ecosystem and toxic system we find ourselves in." They said the substance used to dye the river was uranine, which they said has"about the toxicity of table salt".
Zurich police said they had begun receiving calls about the stunt at around noon and that they were analysing the substance. Extinction Rebellion describes itself as an international movement using non-violent civil disobedience"to achieve radical change in order to minimise the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse".
The organisation is planning a number of actions across Switzerland over the next two weeks, including in Luzern, Lausanne and Geneva.
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