It’s a great way to remind people of the disaster ahead, and force people to mention it. Even if in a bad tone, they still have to remind themselves that it exists .
Just Stop Oil targets culturally significant objects to highlight that the viewer’s outrage at direct attacks on those objects is greater than the viewer’s outrage at the same attacks against those objects by the creators of climate change.
If throwing washable paint on Stonehenge pisses you off, you should be even more angry at big oil for progressively destroying the entire planet. Any call for the arrest and immediate punishment of Just Stop Oil members should also match calls for the immediate punishment of big oil execs.
but i’ve already been angry at them for that. why assume i wasn’t? now i’m just also worried about historical sites. personally, so lost on what this accomplished
I once read a conspiracy theory that these “activists” are actually funded or hired by oil companies to lower peoples’ respect for activists. Sounds plausible, but I’ve never seen proof or evidence.
What does stone henge have to do with climate change? Is it owned by a oil company? Is it spewing emissions from a hidden tail pipe?
It’s a great way to remind people of the disaster ahead, and force people to mention it. Even if in a bad tone, they still have to remind themselves that it exists .
Just Stop Oil targets culturally significant objects to highlight that the viewer’s outrage at direct attacks on those objects is greater than the viewer’s outrage at the same attacks against those objects by the creators of climate change.
If throwing washable paint on Stonehenge pisses you off, you should be even more angry at big oil for progressively destroying the entire planet. Any call for the arrest and immediate punishment of Just Stop Oil members should also match calls for the immediate punishment of big oil execs.
It’s juvenile, but it’s pointed.
but i’ve already been angry at them for that. why assume i wasn’t? now i’m just also worried about historical sites. personally, so lost on what this accomplished
I think it’s a reference to the mechanisms under stone henge and the heat they produce, it has to reach the surface of Earth eventually.
If they’d just turn the damn thing off for a hundred years or so we’d have no problem
In another thread someone was arguing that stonehenge is valued. And it’s the implication that’s the message.
He didn’t elaborate on the implication, but he said “What do you think people are gonna do next if this doesn’t work?”
So maybe the strategy is just attack things people value until climate change is fixed
I once read a conspiracy theory that these “activists” are actually funded or hired by oil companies to lower peoples’ respect for activists. Sounds plausible, but I’ve never seen proof or evidence.