Attempting to destroy famous paintings because fossil fuels

Surely these scientists and engineers are already doing everything and it's not working. People won't make the sacrifices needed.

And there's a huge swathe of people now who think it's too late to do anything anyway.

There's very little in this society of ours that isn't touched by oil and an awful lot that features some sort of iniquity in its supply chain, so to 'get' the protestors on that score isn't really saying much. If they walked around in clothes they knitted themselves from organic farms and walked everywhere to meetings or used some pre-industrial revolution mode of transport, they'd be mocked as hippie neo-luddite lunatics. There'll always be an angle. It still comes down to whether there's any veracity in what they're saying, and leave the gotchas aside, as they'd look pretty petty if the warnings come to pass.

It's only that disruptive forms of protest won't really further the cause of climate action as becomes easy to say that they're all just stupid, spoilt kids who've probably never had to really work, don't understand the real world, and nobody should take them or their concerns seriously. Round and round we go.

Indeed, that will soon sort it out.

So anytime anyone has a cause..the new thing is.. “ yeah, let’s damage something “

how far do you enable them ?

what would happen if 20 climate activists decided to throw paint over 30 cars in main st Swords tonight.. ‘cause, climate change’

what would happen if 20 climate activists decided to throw flammable liquid on and set fire to a sales desk up in Dublin airport ?

what would happen if climate activists break into a truck yard and damage breaks and lights on delivery trucks ?

what would happen if climate activists drop a breeze blocks from a flyover onto passing cars ?

See, do nothing it escalates !

for every single crime the law has to be a deterrent. If you kill a person and get 6 months, there’d be 40 murders a day probably.

there needs to be a deterrent…. Otherwise it starts at damaging art… how long before it’s seen as ok to hurt and damage people who’d not be in keeping with their outlooks or doing something that undermines their cause. .

Agree 100% ... anyone holding extreme views ... willing to take extreme actions .... is a potential terrorist ... Just Stop Oil is full of extremists ... who should not be allowed threaten works of art ... they get away with this they up the ante and perhaps become violent ... the Irish version is packed with dissident IRA ...

Terrorism is terrorism ... be it religious like ISIS political like the QANon/Tea Party crowd for a cause like these new lots ... what I'd like to know is where are all these types like Just Stop Oil being radicalised and who is funding them ...

Like ISIS ... like QAnon Tea Party ... like any of these this JSO are fanatics radicalised by someone ... directly or even indirectly ... they are a product of the world we live in ...

I feel that there is a constant doom and gloom/scaremongering going on ... this teaches us to be afraid to hate to be suspicious to be negative ... wars ... overzealous lockdown orientated Covid policy ... constant climate change news ... economic doom and gloom ... all available 24/7 at the click of a switch ... is feeding us with anxiety and is bad for our mental health ... people have become addicted to bad news and seem to watch nothing else ... nothing else seems to be watched on TV .... is it time to switch off from the dreary news and watch or do something else ?? .. is it time for the news itself to stop the overkill on issues like climate change and pandemics ?? Report the news by all means but stop the scaremongering ... the it coulds ... the maybes ... all the analysing of the worst case scenarios ...

I am not denying problems exist ... they are real ... and things need to be done ... but a constant 24/7 diet of negativity and kneejerk conspiracy theory reactions ... result in the extremism we are getting ...

JSO UK seem to be comprised of well to do middle class kids not affected at all by the cause they are committing extremist actions for ... meanwhile those affected in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya are not protesting but have every right to ... if this JSO crowd or their dissident IRA copycats in Ireland care so much about the affects of climate change then they should go and help out with food and medicine distribution in the Horn of Africa ... but that is not cosy enough for these pampered brats ...

You really think "dissident IRA" care about the environment?

But didn't you hear? it's covered in glass so it's all okay...

Yeah this one has particularly annoyed me, it's a beautiful painting. They really should be ashamed of themselves.

It's really getting annoying as you'll probably see more and more art beginning to be glazed in galleries now.

Lots of galleries much rather show art unglazed as it means you can fully appreciate the work without reflections from glass.

Even low reflective glass still has a reflection and an impact on the colour of the work.

You’ll have to take off your high heels before you go through.

I went to see the Van Gogh exhibition in London in 2019. It was £20 to get in. Art isn't always free. If you want to see a bunch of exhibitions on a trip you need to be well healed if you have to pay for them all.

Makes sense, the threat of jail is supposed to deter you from committing crimes.

Don't really see the issue with requesting vegan meals if that's what you eat. You wouldn't expect muslim prisoners to eat non halal food, would you?

Nah, people often want to deny vegans appropriate food while in custody.