Stonehenge sprayed with paint by environmental protesters – DW – 06/19/2024
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The prehistoric megalithic structure in England has been targeted by activists spraying orange powder paint, social media footage showed.

The prehistoric megalithic structure in England has been targeted by activists spraying orange powder paint, social media footage showed.

Environmental protesters sprayed paint on Stonehenge on Wednesday, with footage showing an orange powder covering some of the stones.

Two protesters dressed in white were seen running towards two of the megaliths, spraying paint, as another person attempted to stop them, in footage released by Just Stop Oil, an environmental activist group focused on the issue of human-caused climate change.

  • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    376·
    6 months ago

    Coverage, yes. But the result of that coverage? Making people not want to support climate activism, and maybe even have a negative reaction to anything climate positive. And how effective is that coverage in helping the climate? What changes in climate related policy can be traced back to any of these actions?

    • ShepherdPie@midwest.socialEnglish
      233·
      6 months ago

      Yeah this is totally selfish and just brings attention to them while harming their supposed cause.

    • FluffyPotato@lemm.eeEnglish
      1521·
      6 months ago

      It spreads awerness, no other climate protest has even managed that. Some people obviously fall for the news rage bait but if even 1% of people gain any awerness of climate change it will have been the most effective form of climate protests by far purely on what reach it has had.

      • geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2010·
        6 months ago

        Hard disagree. Everyone in the UK HATES these people. To the point at which the government has been able to pass new laws limiting right to protest.

        • XIIIesq@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1313·
          6 months ago

          Who made you ambassador for the UK? I’m in the UK and I don’t hate them.

          The whole point of protest is to cause disruption, you’re not meant to like it, that’s the point!

          • geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            175·
            6 months ago

            Yeah it can cause disruption, I agree. However it should preferably cause disruption for the people you have a problem with. Or simply by using public space which is equally theirs.

            Making headlines by defacing historical monuments and art isn’t really getting the public on their side. I’m left wing, most of the people I engage with are, and I’ve yet to meet someone in real life who thinks what Just stop oil are doing is helpful

            • XIIIesq@lemmy.worldEnglish
              107·
              6 months ago

              Do you remember when their protest outside the HQ of BP made the news? Me neither, but I’m sure the high rollers on their 6, 7, 8 figure salaries felt terribly inconvenienced!

              I don’t have to agree with their methods or their ideology to recognise their right to protest. We’re talking about dyed cornstarch here, it’s not like they blew the thing up.

              • geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
                83·
                6 months ago

                If the high rollers didn’t feel inconveniences then their protest wasn’t very effective! If they can effectively inconvenience the public to the extent that the government can pass new authoritarian anti-protest laws, but they failed to actually inconvenience the high rollers then what the hell are they doing and isn’t this opinion that they’re not really benefiting the movement actually quite an accurate one?

        • FluffyPotato@lemm.eeEnglish
          718·
          6 months ago

          The UK also has a weird hatred of trans people, I’d rather not get my opinions from there. Also the UK has been passing police state shit long before this.

          • geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            52·
            6 months ago

            Only if you believe what the conservatives want you to believe, and only if you sign up for their culture war narrative

              • geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
                63·
                6 months ago

                The fact that you can’t even spell Labour correctly says enough about the quality of your research on their policies

                • FluffyPotato@lemm.eeEnglish
                  35·
                  6 months ago

                  The UK has become completely irrelevant on the global stage be grateful I capitalised the names. Like your economy is being out paced by fucking Poland, shame is the proper response there, not national pride.

          • XIIIesq@lemmy.worldEnglish
            54·
            6 months ago

            You’ll find that whilst far from perfect, that the UK is one of the most accepting and diverse populations on earth.

              • XIIIesq@lemmy.worldEnglish
                51·
                6 months ago

                I’m not taking the bait. There’s obviously many worse countries than the UK to be trans in and like I’ve already said, the UK isn’t perfect but it wouldn’t be as diverse as it is without being as accepting as it is.

                You can reply to this if you want, but don’t expect me to reply in turn, this is my final statement on the matter.

                • FluffyPotato@lemm.eeEnglish
                  38·
                  6 months ago

                  If you wanna measure your country against those that outright kills trans people then sure, there are worse ones but in Europe, most North America and most of Asia the UK is one of the worst places to be trans. Also both of your relevant politician parties have the same policy there.