Climate Activists Spray-Paint Darwin’s Grave in London to Draw Attention to Climate Disaster

www.democracynow.org Climate Activists Spray-Paint Darwin’s Grave in London to Draw Attention to Climate Disaster

In the U.K., two members of the direct action climate group Just Stop Oil were arrested after they spray-painted the words “1.5 is dead” on the grave of Charles Darwin at London’s Westminster Abbey Monday. The protest follows the news last week that 2024 was the hottest year in human history, with...

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Vandalizing graves and museums - what a great way to get supporters and make people sympathetic to your cause...
I have further ideas - how about beating some pre-schoolers or burning a homeless shelter to protest global warming? Or perhaps throwing mud at the elderly? Drowning some puppies? Since clearly these people believe all publicity is good publicity, think how much buzz that would generate!
- There's a fair bit of evidence that it works. That's why people keep on doing it.
- Yeah, since they've solely done completely harmless shit up until now, why don't they just murder some dogs? That's the same thing!
  
  Your fucking sick murdering dogs is wrong.
  
  You failed high school English, didn't you?
  
  You got an A+ in dog murdering in highschool didn't you. You know animal cruelty is a sign of being a serial killer. You been checked for mental illness?
- What should they do?
  Protest in the designated area so that we ignore them more easily? But not somewhere where it blocks cars? Maybe stop chanting to keep the noise down?
  The normal protests don't seem to work.
  
  How about actually protesting something that's related to their cause? Blocking a highway is absolutely one of those. Or, if you want to throw paint at something, how about throwing it at an office of an oil company or a car/private jet of a CEO and not on a fucking grave?
  I never said they should not protest at all or not inconvenience anyone, but vandalism of random property or cultural heritage? No, I will not support that.
  
  They have and people whined about it. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taylor-swift-private-jet-climate-activists-orange-paint-british-airfield/

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