Just Stop Oil Climate Activists. Source Twitter, Fair Use, Low Resolution Image to Identify the Subject

Climate Activists Glue Themselves to Historic Oil Paintings

Essay by Eric Worrall

Vandalising, risking damage to irreplaceable artworks, because none of us have listened to their spoiled tantrums.

Just Stop Oil Paintings: Climate Activists Glue Themselves to Art by Van Gogh, Turner

Climate extremists from the Just Stop Oil group have glued themselves to artworks by Vincent van Gogh and William Turner, to blackmail the government into halting fossil fuel projects.

“Sorry everybody, we don’t wanna be doing this, we’re here glued to this painting, this beautiful painting, because we’re terrified for our future,” explained one of the protesters, apparently male, in a video published on social media by TalkTV showing him and a comrade glued to van Gogh’s Peach Trees In Blossom in London’s Courtauld Gallery.

“We’re here for a group called Just Stop Oil, we expect to be arrested today,” he went on, not seemingly particularly perturbed by the prospect — perhaps justifiably, given the authorities’ habit of simply releasing climate extremist protesters disrupting national infrastructure much more critical to the country than a painting, without pursuing serious charges.

“We’re here because the UK government is pushing through 40 new fossil fuel projects, and with every single project they sign it’s like signing our death warrant,” the activist went on, heedless of the fuel and energy independence crisis which has spurred the typically green-obsessed Prime Minister Johnson to action.

“For 30 years we’ve been outside Parliament with our banners and our flags, and for 30 years nothing has been done,” he added, perhaps somewhat dubiously considering his adolescent appearance.

Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/07/01/just-stop-oil-paintings-climate-activists-glue-themselves-to-art-by-van-gogh-turner/

Video of the attack on art (h/t Breitbart);

This “for 30 years nothing has been done” is a common theme of climate extremists, but they really have been warning us for 30 years.

Like this 1989 gem of a climate warning from the United Nations, which gave us  “a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control” – a time window which expired in the year 2000.

Of course the counter argument to the green 30 year claim is 30 years of ridiculous apocalyptic climate warnings and 10 year deadlines, and nothing bad has happened.

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Philip Mulholland
July 2, 2022 2:04 am

I don’t like oil paintings either.

Vuk
Reply to  Philip Mulholland
July 2, 2022 3:49 am

Dare do it in the Louvre?
https://youtu.be/aBTLPLQTHhw

Bryan A
Reply to  Vuk
July 2, 2022 10:05 am

If the U.K. we’re a shariah law country they would be Unhanded for attempted art theft

Joe
Reply to  Bryan A
July 2, 2022 12:12 pm

“Unhand me you swarthy oaf!…Oh, wait!”

Bryan A
Reply to  Joe
July 2, 2022 12:27 pm

What stop at just one hand, they could still repeat their attempt

MarkMcD
Reply to  Bryan A
July 2, 2022 3:59 pm

They tried in France to do the roadway glue thing and French gendarmes just ripped their hands off the bitumen – man, did they scream like little babies! 😀

We’ve got to stop being soft on these spoiled brats – clearly their parents failed miserably in their upbringing by being too pissant to impose any kind of discipline so now it’s up to the real world to do it.

They have to learn to control their tantrums before they get to anything like a position of power or the human race is dead.

Reply to  MarkMcD
July 3, 2022 6:16 am

Just leave them there. Easier than telling them to go sit in a corner.

Reply to  George Daddis
July 3, 2022 8:11 pm

Very few glues or inks stay stuck to human skin. They’ll peel off the frames easily in a few days.

Given them buckets to stand in. Then, when they’re freed, they can carry out their own mess on their way to terrorism court.

JEHILL
Reply to  Bryan A
July 2, 2022 8:23 pm

I just had that thought. Why dissolve the glue? Jaws of life them from the painting.

Rhoda R.
Reply to  Vuk
July 2, 2022 9:27 pm

Why do anything? Just let them stand there. Offer them lots of water and maybe a Taco Bell taco or something but let them know that if they try to remove the painting from the wall they’ll be nailed for attempted theft.

EdC
Reply to  Rhoda R.
July 3, 2022 8:02 am

Go one further. Make them part of the exhibit. Place a sign (out of their reach) that’s titled “fools errand”.

Scissor
Reply to  Philip Mulholland
July 2, 2022 5:43 am

When the guy attached himself to the goal post, someone should have added a few more ties and played the game around him.

Richard Page
Reply to  Scissor
July 3, 2022 1:37 pm

It’s the same guy – the ‘woman’ is a new addition though. Just think – if they’d left him on the goal post he wouldn’t have been able to glue himself to a painting! Apparently he’s also been on ‘Insulate Britain’ protests – it seems he’s not picky about the cause, as long he gets to do some mindless publicity stunt.

Reply to  Philip Mulholland
July 2, 2022 6:01 am

You damned watercolor fanatic!
😁

Jit
Reply to  Philip Mulholland
July 2, 2022 6:08 am

Radical Watercolourists Demand No New Oil Paintings

London, June 30 –

Two activists from the radical watercolourist group Just Stop Oil Paintings today glued themselves to Van Gogh’s Perzikbomen in bloei, Peach Trees in Blossom, in the University of London’s Courtauld Gallery.

One of the two, who was described as apparently male, made clear the protest’s purpose in a statement to bewildered onlookers.

“Sorry everybody, we don’t want to be doing this, we’re here glued to this oil painting, because we’re terrified for our future. We just can’t go on working in oils.”

“We’re here for a group called Just Stop Oil Paintings, and we expect to be arrested today. Hopefully the cops will come quite soon, because I don’t think I should have had that coffee before we came in.”

“We’re here because the UK government is pushing through 40 new art grants for oil-based projects, and with every single project they sign it’s like signing the watercolourists’ death warrant,” he went on.

When a heckler pointed out that the attacked painting was 130 years old and had nothing to do with new art projects, the activist responded furiously.

“That’s the point, you idiot! For 130 years we’ve been outside Parliament with our banners and our flags demanding the government stop new oil paintings, and for 130 years the government have ignored us, fuelled by constant disinformation propagated by the evil oil painting lobby!”

“You look about twelve,” someone said. “So you can hardly have been protesting about oil paintings since 1892.”

At this point the activist’s co-conspirator spoke up. “In any case, we can’t keep looking at all these old paintings by dimbulb privileged neurotypical white cis 19th-century male oil painters. We need to get this rubbish down and get some of my felt work up in its place.”

An octogenarian gallery-goer snorted that describing Van Gogh as neurotypical was way off the mark and displayed the activist’s complete lack of knowledge of the subject.

“This is a Van Gogh?” the activist asked, startled.

The activists were later freed by security before any accidents happened and were immediately arrested by attending officers.

A police spokesperson said that the watercolourists had already been released and that no further action would be taken.

Reply to  Philip Mulholland
July 2, 2022 9:32 am

Right, oil and gas paintings must be stopped!

G Mawer
Reply to  E. Schaffer
July 2, 2022 10:50 am

What they should be terrified of is what would happen if oil and gas actually was stopped!!

Shawn
Reply to  G Mawer
July 3, 2022 11:52 am

See Sri Lanka

Paul Penrose
Reply to  G Mawer
July 5, 2022 10:01 am

Yeah, they’d last about 48 hours in a world without fossil fuels, which is only about 24 hours less than the average city dweller.

Reply to  E. Schaffer
July 2, 2022 1:29 pm

PotentialBabylonBeeHeadline™: “Artists mourn the global warming mitigation-mandated death of the oil paintings industry”

July 2, 2022 2:09 am

They’ve sprayed graffiti on an extremely nice wooden floor, using oil based products, glued themselves to a picture frame, no doubt damaging it in the process. They’re wearing clothes, shoes and a rucksack made with and using oil based products.
These people are so stupid and ignorant(lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated) it hurts and are a sad reflection on education in the UK

Phillip Bratby
Reply to  Ben Vorlich
July 2, 2022 2:37 am

Unfortunately there is no cure for stupid..

Alexy Scherbakoff
Reply to  Phillip Bratby
July 2, 2022 3:07 am

There is. Some may not want to hear it.
The procedure was perfect but unfortunately the patient……….

rah
Reply to  Phillip Bratby
July 2, 2022 4:41 am

Sure there is. Leave their stupid asses stuck there. They won’t do it again.

Scissor
Reply to  rah
July 2, 2022 5:51 am

I had a similar thought. In any case, people are becoming fed up.

Reply to  rah
July 2, 2022 5:53 am

I see this took place at ‘London’s Courtauld Gallery’, where I’m sure 99 44/100% of the staff and clientele probably agrees with these clowns. Maybe the thing to do would be to unglue them and then re-glue them to the bar in a biker hangout.

rah
Reply to  Frank from NoVA
July 2, 2022 1:45 pm

If you work in an art gallery and agree with someone damaging a priceless piece of the collection then……..

Reply to  Frank from NoVA
July 3, 2022 8:18 pm

Glue their foreheads to the bar.

dsp
Reply to  rah
July 2, 2022 6:02 am

I agree. Let them start crying for food and water. In a short time they will soil themselves in front of everyone.

TBeholder
Reply to  Phillip Bratby
July 2, 2022 10:11 am

Sure there is. Some are dispensed in the form of

intracranial suppositoria
Euthanasepam-Retard (may contain tungsten) and Euthanasepam-Express (may contain lead) often used during large outbreaks
.

fretslider
Reply to  Ben Vorlich
July 2, 2022 3:16 am

That’s indoctrination in the UK…

Mac
Reply to  Ben Vorlich
July 2, 2022 3:24 am

Yep, they should have glued themselves completely nude, as you said not realizing everything they wore is made with oil including eyeglasses. Can’t fix ignorance as well as stupid!

AGW is Not Science
Reply to  Mac
July 2, 2022 4:21 pm

I’m sure THE GLUE is also made from petroleum products!

Reply to  Ben Vorlich
July 2, 2022 6:31 am

If you are British and if it can act as a lenient: it is “a sad reflection on education” in many other “developed” countries, not only in the UK.

Thomas J. Waeghe
Reply to  Ben Vorlich
July 2, 2022 6:50 am

Looks like they’re coming unglued by getting glued.

mal
Reply to  Ben Vorlich
July 2, 2022 9:13 am

They are so stupid they don’t even know every carbon atom in their bodies are from CO2.

TBeholder
Reply to  Ben Vorlich
July 2, 2022 9:56 am

They are neither particularly stupid nor ignorant. They are merely cheeky.
All this pathetic show, just like every similar circus before it, is the modern variation of inbred, drunk aristocrats whizzing on a crowd from the balcony and giggling. And will probably end the same way this time. Okay, cheeky and short-sighted, then.

Reply to  Ben Vorlich
July 2, 2022 1:13 pm

They really are practicing the “Art of stupidity” !

Sunderlandsteve
July 2, 2022 2:10 am

“For 30 years we’ve been outside Parliament with our banners and our flags, and for 30 years nothing has been done,”

And for 30 years nothing has changed climatically.

Reply to  Sunderlandsteve
July 2, 2022 5:19 am

“And for 30 years nothing has changed climatically.”
That is the most important part. I wish more people would point that out.

G Mawer
Reply to  Matthew Bergin
July 2, 2022 11:59 am

I wish more people would point out the real life consequences of stopping oil production. That would an eye opener to them.

H B
July 2, 2022 2:28 am

Get the french cops to deal to this

Rich Davis
Reply to  H B
July 2, 2022 2:42 am

Nah, that would damage the picture frame. The best approach is to apply a tourniquet (to prevent blood splatter), and cut off the hand.

Tom
Reply to  Rich Davis
July 2, 2022 4:11 am

Van Gogh would be impressed.

Rich Davis
Reply to  Tom
July 2, 2022 4:31 am

I hear you

Reply to  Rich Davis
July 2, 2022 5:07 am

What?

Reply to  HotScot
July 2, 2022 7:27 am

Van Gogh only cut off an ear.

Reply to  writing observer
July 3, 2022 2:37 am

Wh..?

Bryan A
Reply to  Rich Davis
July 2, 2022 10:12 am

Unhand that priceless artwork

July 2, 2022 2:28 am

They are liars. They have not been protesting for 30 years as they don’t appear 30 years old. Probably conditioned by fanatical, ignorant schoolteachers.

G Mawer
Reply to  HotScot
July 2, 2022 12:02 pm

Exactly. They have been brainwashed.

Lrp
July 2, 2022 2:38 am

No to oil painting

ozspeaksup
Reply to  Lrp
July 2, 2022 3:09 am

oh the irony!

Herbert
July 2, 2022 2:45 am

“(With climate) Anything can happen, but it usually doesn’t”- Robert Benchley.

Notanacademic
July 2, 2022 2:48 am

D*ckheads.

Reply to  Notanacademic
July 2, 2022 6:37 am

NO!

The said “heads” at least have a FUNCTION! A useful function!

fretslider
July 2, 2022 3:05 am

They should be left where they are until they wet themselves or preferably til they starve

H.R.
Reply to  fretslider
July 2, 2022 5:06 am

Yup. That’s my preferred approach, fretslider.

Put up some stanchions – no help or sandwiches from compatriots – and make them part of the exhibit for a while.

Odds are there would be someone in the crowd who would point out the oil in the grafitti, the painting, and their clothes and start in with some pointed ridicule. I’d imagine the ridicule would catch on with others in the crowd and there would be some good old-fashioned humiliation meted out.

The ‘leave them in place’ approach for those who glue themselves to various places is like they put themselves in stocks to be ridiculed in public. much as it was done in days of yore. Enterprising kids could set up nearby and sell rotten vegetables.

A good time would be had by all except by the idiots who did it to themselves.

Rhoda R.
Reply to  H.R.
July 2, 2022 9:33 pm

Not to mention that the oil used in painting comes from pressed linseeds not petroleum.

roaddog
Reply to  Rhoda R.
July 3, 2022 6:05 am

This is a discussion dominated by ignorance, and objective reality is not welcome.

ozspeaksup
July 2, 2022 3:07 am

guess skin would give before aged wood would?
use the french solution! rip em off

Hans Erren
July 2, 2022 3:08 am

vegetable and whale oil paintings….

Hans Erren
Reply to  Hans Erren
July 2, 2022 3:12 am
Andy Espersen
July 2, 2022 3:13 am

Leave them there for 24 hours – perhaps put the painting on the floor so they can sleep. Give them nothing to eat or drink. Give them a commode each. Then free them somehow, arrest them and charge them with criminal misconduct.

My bet is they won’t do it again – and neither will their mates.

Disputin
Reply to  Andy Espersen
July 2, 2022 3:24 am

“Give them a commode each.” and put the painting on the floor so they can sleep

Why? Anyone can last 24 hours with no sleep (especially with loud noises). Don’t mollycoddle them.

H.R.
Reply to  Disputin
July 2, 2022 5:09 am

Yup, Disputin. Just leave them ’til the glue gives way or they rip themselves free.

I pointed out above that this is a wonderful opportunity for ridicule while they are stuck there.

rhs
Reply to  Andy Espersen
July 2, 2022 8:15 am

Leave them there with plenty of water laced with a laxative. They’ll find a way to move on their own.

Reply to  Andy Espersen
July 2, 2022 10:21 am

andy, you are showing way to much compassion.

no to moving the painting,
no to giving them a commode.
no help from fellow knuckle heads.

just let then stand.
cameras rolling.

FULL FRONTAL STUPIDITY.jpg
Rod Evans
July 2, 2022 3:35 am

The easy indoctrination of youth and their lack of experience we can understand.
Kids do dumb things.
What is less understandable is how a multi billionaire mature individual and there are many, why do they support these loons in their public displays of stupidity?

lee
July 2, 2022 3:38 am

tbey don’t appear to be 30 years of age.

fretslider
Reply to  lee
July 2, 2022 3:44 am

They don’t even have an IQ of 30

Richard Page
Reply to  lee
July 3, 2022 1:47 pm

He’s 21, arrested several times, 3 months in prison so far; she’s 24, no convictions at this time but probably due to change quite soon. 10 years each should be about right, I reckon.

Bill Toland
July 2, 2022 4:03 am

I think that this may be an example of performance art by two artists who are pretending to be climate activists. The only other possible explanation I can think of is that climate activists are demonstrating that they are halfwits.

Captain climate
July 2, 2022 4:32 am

Why couldn’t they glue themselves to a Picasso or some other garbage?

Stuart Hamish
Reply to  Captain climate
July 2, 2022 5:45 am

Fanatics throughout history have targeted art works …The Inquisition’s friars Maoist cadres Nazi brownshirts Sunni and Shia Islamist militants and now brainwashed radical environmentalists who seem to believe stunts like this might raise awareness of a mythical ‘climate crisis ‘

July 2, 2022 4:33 am

“There’s not a pill you can take, there’s not a class you can go to, stupid is forever!”

Ron White, comedian.

zee
July 2, 2022 4:37 am

“Sorry everybody, we don’t wanna be doing this, we’re here glued to this painting, this beautiful painting, because we’re terrified for our future,” explained one of the protesters, apparently male, in a video published on social media by TalkTV showing him and a comrade glued to van Gogh’s Peach Trees In Blossom in London’s Courtauld Gallery.

Rich Davis
Reply to  zee
July 2, 2022 4:42 am

“apparently male”

Isn’t that how every guy hopes to be described?

Phaedo
Reply to  Rich Davis
July 2, 2022 5:06 am

In this case perhaps more appropriately ‘accidentally male’

Reply to  Rich Davis
July 2, 2022 1:05 pm

How’s about a swift kick to the ‘nads to check!

John Thorogood
July 2, 2022 4:41 am

Er……. Eric, pls check your numbers, isn’t it more like 50 years of apocalyptic warnings??

Jack
July 2, 2022 5:18 am

The oil used in the artworks since centuries isn’t a fossil oil, but a very natural one extracted from flaxseeds.

Rich Davis
Reply to  Jack
July 2, 2022 8:51 am

So fossils are unnatural, got it.

Richard Page
Reply to  Jack
July 2, 2022 10:51 am

You mean vegetable oil rather than mineral oil, right? Both being ‘natural’ as it were.

Tom Halla
July 2, 2022 5:20 am

Failure to send them to herding sheep in the Falklands is why they feel free to be yahoos.

Richard Page
Reply to  Tom Halla
July 3, 2022 1:49 pm

Dear God, what have the people of the Falkland Islands ever done to you? Send them to the Sandwich Islands – they’re uninhabited.

ResourceGuy
July 2, 2022 5:33 am

What’s the hourly pay rate and benefit package? Surely they have unionized by now or is this still scabs.

DHR
July 2, 2022 5:45 am

The French police have a proper way of dealing with those who glue themselves to public property. They do not use solvent, they simply pull them off. That ought to be the rule everywhere.

July 2, 2022 6:00 am

As Bob Ross would say, “Beat the Devil out of them.”
https://youtu.be/xy6J4e1z4Lc

July 2, 2022 6:09 am

The human population has grown in prosperity and health over the last 200 years like no other time in all of our history, and that is all as a consequence of the burning coal, oil and gas.

“On what principle is it that with nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?” – Thomas Babington Macaulay
“Too much of what is called ’education’ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.” – T. Sowell

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