Because if they did you wouldn’t be pissed off by it making a comment.
Scientists and activists have been drawing our attention to climate change since the 80’s, it doesn’t seem to be working so might as well try something else.
Except this “something else” is just making them look like destructive idiots and not drawing any sort of positive attention to that cause (unless you consider having more destructive idiots join up positive).
Blocking a pipeline development or shipment of dirty coal is at least reasonably related to what they’re protesting. This is just “look at me” tactics
To witness the irony of you calling them „destructive” for ruining a painting frame in protest to literally destroying a climate and an ecosystem of an entire planet makes it worth it to me.
They aren’t protesting against inflation, discrimination or even a war.
They are protesting against our entire way of life, which needs to change drastically and as soon as possible if we want to have any sort of a predictable future at all.
And… how is throwing soup at paintings helping this? I didn’t say anything about the people/lifestyle they’re protesting against, because - guess what - the vast majority of the population are just going to see some idiots throwing soup at a painting and the rest of their message or cause it’s then lost.
Soup on a painting, a brick through a window, whatever message you intend is going to get lost in the action of seeking attention
To draw attention to the climate crisis because direct action against those responsible tends to be met with a media blackout, and they need to prompt conversation to get the public on-side.
You think a painting will be relevant when we wipe out the majority of life on earth?
Look at all the art we dig up from ancient Rome and even cave paintings that tell us so much about humanity and our history.
In 1000-2000 years after society collapses from climate change and archeology gets back in business finding these paintings and other artworks will be incredibly important.
The fall of an empire is not the same as the literal apocalypse - it’s important that you understand that.
I don’t value billions of people’s lives and the existence of tens of thousands of species over wiping some soup off a pane of glass (not even the fucking painting), and find it disturbing that you appear to.
I just don’t get why they would target a van gogh painting. Because it was made with oil based paints?
Why not target something that’s actually relevant to the oil industry? Like a Exxon mobil office or plane or something?
Because if they did you wouldn’t be pissed off by it making a comment.
Scientists and activists have been drawing our attention to climate change since the 80’s, it doesn’t seem to be working so might as well try something else.
Except this “something else” is just making them look like destructive idiots and not drawing any sort of positive attention to that cause (unless you consider having more destructive idiots join up positive).
Blocking a pipeline development or shipment of dirty coal is at least reasonably related to what they’re protesting. This is just “look at me” tactics
To witness the irony of you calling them „destructive” for ruining a painting frame in protest to literally destroying a climate and an ecosystem of an entire planet makes it worth it to me.
They aren’t protesting against inflation, discrimination or even a war. They are protesting against our entire way of life, which needs to change drastically and as soon as possible if we want to have any sort of a predictable future at all.
And… how is throwing soup at paintings helping this? I didn’t say anything about the people/lifestyle they’re protesting against, because - guess what - the vast majority of the population are just going to see some idiots throwing soup at a painting and the rest of their message or cause it’s then lost.
Soup on a painting, a brick through a window, whatever message you intend is going to get lost in the action of seeking attention
To draw attention to the climate crisis because direct action against those responsible tends to be met with a media blackout, and they need to prompt conversation to get the public on-side.
You think a painting will be relevant when we wipe out the majority of life on earth?
Yeah?
Look at all the art we dig up from ancient Rome and even cave paintings that tell us so much about humanity and our history.
In 1000-2000 years after society collapses from climate change and archeology gets back in business finding these paintings and other artworks will be incredibly important.
The fall of an empire is not the same as the literal apocalypse - it’s important that you understand that.
I don’t value billions of people’s lives and the existence of tens of thousands of species over wiping some soup off a pane of glass (not even the fucking painting), and find it disturbing that you appear to.