No publicity is bad publicity, especially when you are trying to remind people what the world is being destroyed by.
Sites of human history have no significance if there are no humans.
Comment on BBC News - Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 months agoDefacing random things that don’t have any connect at all to what you’re protesting only makes you look bad.
Yeah, it got attention. Bad attention.
ianovic69@feddit.uk 5 months ago
rah@feddit.uk 5 months ago
What would you have them deface?
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Oh I don’t know… Something that has anything to do with oil production
rah@feddit.uk 5 months ago
One could argue that stone henge is an icon of humanity’s pre-industrial, sustainable origins and as such acts as a reminder of the future that humanity will face after the ecological and civilisational collapse currently underway as a direct result of oil production. And hence stone henge is something to do with oil production.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I would argue you’re full of shit and grasping at straws.
Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Let’s be real here. What could climate protesters do that wouldn’t get them bad attention? History has shown: Nothing. There is nothing they could do that wouldn’t get them bad attention. In Germany, they even got cussed out for blocking private jets.
Face it: The powerful do not fear retaliation from the masses if they vilify climate protesters. The protesterscannot win the PR battle. So all they have left is publicity stunts. And as far as publicity stunts go, plastering stones with water-soluble paint is about as tame as it gets.
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 5 months ago
Some will likely turn towards eco terrorism within the next years of continued inaction.