This Friday, a group of activists has launched a can of tomato soup against Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’. A few days ago, two people they stuck their hands on a painting by Picasso exhibited in Melbourne. Weeks before, a woman threw a cake at the ‘Mona Lisa’ by Da Vinci exhibited in the Louvre. In all these cases, these actions have been carried out by several environmental groups in protest of inaction against the climate crisis. “What is worth more, art or life? Is it worth more than food? Is it worth more than justice? What worries us more, the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?”, highlight the activists who have starred in today’s episode.
? JUST STOP OIL SUPPORTERS CHOOSE LIFE OVER ART ?
? Human creativity and brilliance is on show in this gallery, yet our heritage is being destroyed by our Government’s failure to act on the climate and cost of living crisis.#VanGogh #FreeLouis #FreeJosh #CivilResistance pic.twitter.com/gXXGLsi0ej
— Just Stop Oil ⚖️?? (@JustStop_Oil) October 14, 2022
With a month to go before the start of the climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, the great diplomatic meeting on climate policies, the environmental movements emphasize their anger at political and business inaction in the face of ecological disaster. The “actions of nonviolent civil disobedience” – as defined by its promoters – multiply as the event approaches. The protests are being seconded both by young environmentalists as for well-known activists Y scientists first level. In all the actions carried out to date, the protesters have called for stronger measures to curb the drivers of the climate crisis and mitigate the consequences of this global phenomenon.
The protesters who have attacked Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’, for example, have called on the British government to stop all new oil and gas projects: the main responsible for greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming. The hands clasped in front of the Picasso were to denounce “the climatic collapse that is increasing armed conflicts throughout the world”: a phenomenon that, in fact, has multiplied exponentially in recent decades due to the scarcity of resources such as water. The cake against the ‘Mona Lisa’ sought to alert against the process of “destruction of the Earth” and the catastrophic future that awaits us if we do not stop this crisis.
Scientists against the climate crisis
In recent months there have also been multiplied the protests of scientists against the climate crisis. For the first time in history, “white coat” professionals are taking to the streets to protest against the lack of measures to curb the climate crisis. In April, thousands of researchers from around the world staged a week of global mobilizations and the first major “global science strike for climate.”
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In Spain, one of the most striking actions was when dozens of Spanish scientists, researchers and academics they threw fake blood in front of the entrance to the Congress of Deputies to “make visible the mass crime implied by decades of climate inaction”.
“We can’t act like it’s nothing when the world is going to shit”
Scientist Rebellion
“We can’t act like nothing when the world goes to shit”, explained several activists from ‘Scientist Rebellion’ in an interview with EL PERIÓDICO. “The rebellion is based on a harsh reality: the science of climate change is not being heard“, the promoters of these protests argued in their day.