Attempting to destroy famous paintings because fossil fuels

What do attention seekers do when people show no interest in them or starve them of attention ?

they do something outlandish and or outrageous to court attention.

never mind that it might destroy something people love and enjoy… they and their cause get 5 minutes.

criminal justice system should jail them… but it won’t.

People looking at that don’t think.. “ fûck, the climate! “They think.. “ pair of thuggish fûckwits “

they should put their money where their mouth is, and do something like this...

A child dieing on the way to hospital due to a road protest would certainly change public opinion.

But I don’t think it’s really about “caring for the environment”. It more about the speed at which you want to decarbonise society. You could just ban all fossil fuels overnight and accept the consequences on life and death and living standards as being part of some greater good. Or do it in a more transitional way.

These protestors dont really seem to be communicating an effective message.

They did it for publicity and got a lot of publicity.

If your first reaction is "jeez, who is sitting at home and hears about this and suddenly changes their mind about climate change" then you don't understand a lot about publicity

These people are absolute idiots. Tbj thr majory come from wealthy inbred family's and do not hae 2 brain cells to rub together.

So all the science says if we don't stop oil everything will be pretty f**ked in the coming years. Quiet protesting doesn't seem to be changing anything, there's no one you can vote for who will implement the changes required, so the situation is pretty hopeless and maybe that's why they're resorting to these stunts. At least they're getting attention no matter how annoying you may find them.

I don't know why people always bang on about their class or wealth, most social movements are led by wealthier people if you think about it - suffragettes, RSPCA, even the likes of Daniel O'Connell and Wolfe Tone were posh af.

Obviously a man driving a van or a low paid factory worker have other things to worry about rather than the existential threat of climate change, that has always been the way.

I would have thought the boards.ie crowd would be well in favour of this movement though, I know how passionate they are about stopping climate change and total believers in the science!

Most people outside of the alt-right and boards.ie do agree that climate change is happening and we need to reshape our economy, but it's not happening. Absolutely nothing is happening.

I don't know why people give out about them being young or what colour they are, an 80 year old woman was arrested protesting with Just Stop Oil the other day too though.

Where have you gotten this consensus from? Polling? I guarantee you that most Irish people spend little time thinking about climate change. As you've all but said yourself in a previous post, it's a very middle class ideology, and a very particular type of middle class too. Other worries are far greater to the vast majority of society.

They're prats. They have proved this.

Because of this I don't care what they have to say about anything.

Fair enough!