Climate Protesters Pushing Boundaries

November 18, 2022

Thoughts??
CLIMATE ACTIVISTS THROW OIL ON KLIMT PAINTING. (Yes, there was glass on the work.) pic.twitter.com/772EcJA8qW
— Jerry Saltz (@jerrysaltz) November 16, 2022

reader comment in the Guardian pic.twitter.com/KlT3D7xUCY
— sirenscrossing (@sirenscrossing) November 15, 2022

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13 Responses to “Climate Protesters Pushing Boundaries”

ecoquant Says:

November 18, 2022 at 7:42 pm
Not sure what the post is supposed to mean.

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- rhymeswithgoalie Says:
  
  November 18, 2022 at 11:48 pm
  I think “Climate Protesters Pushing Boundaries” is pretty clear as a title with a couple of examples of different boundaries being pushed.
  
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  - ecoquant Says:
    
    November 19, 2022 at 12:47 pm
    The point to achieve being?
    
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    - rhymeswithgoalie Says:
      
      November 19, 2022 at 5:11 pm
      The point to achieve being?
      
      Getting more attention (and reporting) on the subject from the media, I would think, whether through shocking acts or poetry.
      
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      - ecoquant Says:
        
        November 19, 2022 at 5:24 pm
        And WHO doesn’t understand yet? They may not understand WHY and what needs to be done to stop it, but dramatic and inconvenient interruptions are not going to do that either.
        
        Who are these directed at? Are not there better ways of affecting and convincing them? And if there aren’t are there ANY ways that will convince them?
        
        Certainly taking action on climate is one of the most important things governments and people can do. But doing without fossil must mean financial and personal inconvenience. There are few shortcuts.
        
        XR actions don’t achieve these things and are filled with self-important anger. How about tripling the per therm price of petrol and fracked gas? Too unpopular? Then what’s the point? Limit air flights? Why not?
    - rhymeswithgoalie Says:
      
      November 19, 2022 at 5:44 pm
      Who doesn’t understand? I’d say a good chunk of the planet’s population doesn’t understand that addressing climate change means cutting back on fossil fuels yesterday, or at least hurrying your asses up and making it a higher priority than, say, art in your life.
      
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      - ecoquant Says:
        
        November 19, 2022 at 6:04 pm
        I don’t mean to sound self-righteous or anything, but the fact matter is that being ignorant of how the world works has consequences. Some of the consequences hurt. That’s always been the case.
      - Ron Benenati Says:
        
        November 20, 2022 at 5:04 pm
        Just some additional, personal opinion free information
        The work of art is At Gustav Klimt’s ‘Death And Life’
        According to the activists statement,
        “…the move was meant to show how “new oil and gas wells are a death sentence for humanity” (the museum said in a statement that neither the painting or the original frame was damaged thanks to a layer of glass protecting the work)”
        — Forbes
        Also from Forbes, “Spanish climate activists from the group Futuro Vegetal poured red and brown slime—which they said represented blood and oil—from plastic Coca-Cola bottles onto the case of a replica mummy at the Egyptian Museum in Barcelona over the weekend, holding a banner that read “COPca-Cola,” meant to argue the COP27 climate summit in Egypt is hypocritical for accepting a sponsorship from the world’s leading plastics polluter ”
        My personal musing, an increasing number of “youth” feel that after decades of COP and nothing to show other than 65 percent more pollution in the air and the latest record year for increased emissions…a problem that increases damage to life on earth in very real terms…they, perhaps feel that mere statements of their concerns are too easily ignored if there are not some consequences in turn.
      - rhymeswithgoalie Says:
        
        November 20, 2022 at 5:07 pm
        Thank you for that detail and context.
ubrew12 Says:

November 18, 2022 at 8:38 pm
Last time Klimt was disrespected? It was the Nazi’s.
Jess sayin’.

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- Ron Benenati Says:
  
  November 20, 2022 at 1:08 pm
  had people more forcefully protested Nazis….
  
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Ron Benenati Says:

November 20, 2022 at 12:43 pm
Just some additional, personal opinion free information
The work of art is At Gustav Klimt’s ‘Death And Life’
According to the activists statement,
“…the move was meant to show how “new oil and gas wells are a death sentence for humanity” (the museum said in a statement that neither the painting or the original frame was damaged thanks to a layer of glass protecting the work)”
— Forbes
Also from Forbes, “Spanish climate activists from the group Futuro Vegetal poured red and brown slime—which they said represented blood and oil—from plastic Coca-Cola bottles onto the case of a replica mummy at the Egyptian Museum in Barcelona over the weekend, holding a banner that read “COPca-Cola,” meant to argue the COP27 climate summit in Egypt is hypocritical for accepting a sponsorship from the world’s leading plastics polluter ”
My personal musing, an increasing number of “youth” feel that after decades of COP and nothing to show other than 65 percent more pollution in the air and the latest record year for increased emissions…a problem that increases damage to life on earth in very real terms…they, perhaps feel that mere statements of their concerns are too easily ignored if there are not some consequences in turn.

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Ron Benenati Says:

November 20, 2022 at 1:02 pm
Perhaps it is safe to say what we are seeing is the beginning of “Acts of Desperation.”

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