What do you think of environmental protest groups?

https://lemmy.world/post/19981489

What do you think of environmental protest groups? - Lemmy.World

Examples include Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion here in the UK. Personally, I think some charities are groups are genuine in their outburst wanting large firms to stop strangling the natural beauty for profit, however for me there is a red line that can be crossed. Blocking roads preventing medical care, people going to work, interview and possibly a nice vacation away. This doesn’t really help but make the public look at your group in a bad light. The same can also be said when attempting to destroy priceless art for a cheap publicity stunt knowing it’ll get clicks on social media. TLDR - I think some groups are genuinely good whilst others are just shouting in a speakerphone, pissing everyone else off. What do YOU think?

Depends on their actions. Those that just vandalize random art or monuments that have nothing to do with climate change can fuck right off.
Nobody did that, you are one ignorant parrot
Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil protesters

The move comes the day before celebrations for the Summer Solstice.

So they didn’t vandalize art, they bedraggled the glas protecting the art, didn’t they? As if they didn’t really wanted to destroy the Mona Lisa and Warhols Soup Cans.

People have literally been convicted for it. You should try moving your goal posts back to reality.

www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51y99yrj49o

Just Stop Oil pair guilty of throwing soup on to Van Gogh artwork

Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland threw tomato soup on Van Gogh's Sunflowers at the National Gallery.

The gallery previously said the gold-coloured frame of the glass-covered painting was damaged in the October 2022 attack.

Apparently the painting was protected by glass. I don’t know the cultural significance of the frame.

Either way, I don’t approve of vandalism against random objects as a form of protest. How much damage was caused is is relevant for sentencing, not the principle.

The protestors stuck around to be arrested and sentenced, that makes it way easier for me to excuse.

IMO minor damage is acceptable, given the cause.