Climate change protesters arrested after painting Stonehenge monument orange
Climate change protesters arrested after painting Stonehenge monument orange
The incident came just a day before thousands were expected to gather at the 4,500-year-old stone circle to celebrate the summer solstice.
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I'll be real with you, these people and Extinction Rebellion feel like ops designed to make the movement look bad
Like what the fuck does Stonehenge have to do with climate change? Couldn't they have done this to BP or something?
Maybe they're feds, maybe they're not. I can't really say.
There is no perfect activist. Every person is flawed. I watched some of these people being interviewed and they seem like random people who are just actually afraid of climate change. Also the media did misinformation on the soup painting thing. The activists said they only threw paint/soup at painting that they knew was behind glass.
Last summer, the sky was filled with smoke for 2 whole months. For months of the summer there was smoke in the sky every day from the Canada wildfires. I could smell the smoke outside daily. I live in North Carolina. I am hundreds of miles away from Canada. I would ask people, "Do you see the smoke in the sky? Do you smell it? It's on the news" and still people were completely oblivious to it.
Every year is the hottest year on record. The sky is on fire. I'm struggling to care about the optics of painting of old rocks.
If climate change is a genuine danger, then some people will respond in irrational ways. The point is not to chastise the people who react this way, it is to fix the threat of climate change.
Maybe they're feds, maybe they're not. I can't really say.
There is no perfect activist. Every person is flawed. I watched some of these people being interviewed and they seem like random people who are just actually afraid of climate change. Also the media did misinformation on the soup painting thing. The activists said they only threw paint/soup at painting that they knew was behind glass.
For sure
Didn't mean to disparage the people on the ground, I just think the leadership is sus
Without having looked into it deeper, my guess is that it's meant to say something about how historical artifacts and landmarks we ostensibly deem valuable will nonetheless be affected by climate change, and not doing enough to avert that is its own form of vandalism.
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Like what the fuck does Stonehenge have to do with climate change?
Pagan Witchcraft made the world hotter.
Hell yeah it did
Would we have heard about it if they threw some paint on an office building?
Drone striking Buckingham Palace with rigged spray paint can IEDs to "raise awareness"
no, and good. who cares about your fucking paint
my thought exactly; this is just wack. there are so many better things to vandalize
It was cornstarch paint or something that would wash off in the next rain and is biodegradable anyways
It's not an op, it's investor grifting. Capitalists being capitalists.
My first thought was that it was done to take a swipe at the types that would be showing up for the Solstice celebration that claim that it's all about spiritual connection with nature but turn it into a rave full of upper middle class anglo influencer types in the same vein as burning man.
Any reporting on stories of activist vandalism tend to downplay the fact that it's never permanent damage by design. The reporting always present the story like the fact that the soup or whatever never made it past the protective glass as incompetence on part of the protestors, and not in fact a conscious choice since the goal was never to permanently damage the art.
Stonehenge is used during the Solstice by druids of OBOD. It’s not just some out of touch people or what have you.