No, 40% of climate change is caused by the wealthiest 10% globally. That’s 800,000,000 people, including according to this 100 million US-Americans. Even the bottom 50% of US Americans cause as much emission (per capita) as the top 10% in Turkey or Argentina.
Since this was clearly negligence, I think they would be fine. After all, they didn’t intend to damage the statue. Gross negligence is still negligence.
The reason grammatic gender is called gender is because almost all nouns referring to men (boy, men, father, uncle…) are in one group and almost all nouns referring to women are in the other.
In German, Mädchen is not in the female group because -chen is a diminutive changing any noun’s group to neuter. The word Jungchen, from “Junge” meaning “(young) boy” exists as well and is also neuter.
Similarily, all plural nouns are in the female group. Just because grammar has some more quirks doesn’t mean grammatical gender doesn’t line up with actual gender.
The only exception in German I know of would be the word “Weib”, cognate to wife, translating to women, which is in the neuter group. Except this word is archaic and an insult nowadays. All other words referring to gendered people should be in their corresponding grammatical group.