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.
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“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.
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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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After the publicity stunt they got in their SUVs and drove home and used fossil fuels.
Leave them there – they are a good exhibit.
Just remove any oil-based item from them. Almost certainly that will include their clothes, shoes and spectacles.
Just Stop Whining About Climate You Nincompoops.
Who needs glue when you can just freeze them to death….
South Africans struggle in the dark to cope with power cuts – ABC News (go.com)
With Their hand glued to the wall, they could not defend themselves from being punched in the face.
Yes, Performance Art.
Extreme affluence combined with self-righteousness and nothing better to do with their time. Just wait until we get “Universal Basic Income” and the whole country will turn into Portland, where the bored self-righteous will only exist to make like miserable for those with better things to do.
I doubt that the glue bond between skin and the picture frame is very strong. Note how they are holding onto the frame.
In that case, staff should strip them bare, and reattach them by their…genitalia. And close up for the evening.
Nevertheless better safe than sorry. Cut the hand off so it’s easier to manipulate while carefully applying minimal solvent. All that volatile acetone going into the atmosphere! No excuse for that.
hope they chop off their hands
““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”
No, you are glued to the frame.
It seems to me that it could be calmly explained that for the next 24 hours they will be allowed to protest — no food, no water, no bathroom, no sitting, no sleeping. Make sure they have cellphones so that when they are ready to surrender to authorities they can call. Oh and close off the gallery so that they can protest alone. And when authorities get the call they can put it into triage — is this an emergency? No? Please call our non-emergency number. Non-emergency here. I see. You wish to surrender. Are you in danger of escaping? No? We’ll get to you at the end of the shift, if we don’t have more pressing matters at that time.
I’m wondering how they stop the oil in their hair. Obviously not from using shampoo every morning as the pictures show.
I’m failing to understand the linkage between art museums and CO2 emissions.
Neither pose a threat to our climate.
My guess is that they misread the entrance details and thought it was a fart museum. We all know Jacinda’s views on such things!
The UK authorities should hire a French Police consultant. They have a proven method to deal with glue fanatics.
notice they were not brave enough to touch the actual art…
Finish gluing them onto the frames and leave them in the hopes that their cobwebbed skeletons can teach others about stupidity.
Now that would be quite… how do you say?.. “Art nuveau”!
Sentence each of them to one year without any access to ANYTHING made either from, or with the help of any fossil fuel.
My guess is they wouldn’t last a week.
Maybe they should try this one next..
Thames Frost Fair, 1683–84, by Thomas Wyke.
The protesters aren’t fully responsible. They’ve been indoctrinated over the years as a result of: profoundly incompetent media; low-quality education from K-12 and at universities; ignorant, gutless, virtue-signalling left-leaning politicians (such as our Prime Minstrel™ here in Canada); and more.
If people such as these kids really, really want to make a contribution towards saving the planet, I suggest setting up a “Make Me Part of the Solution” list in every city. Special equipment would be installed at the primary dwelling of everyone on the list, whereby their electricity would trip off whenever fossil fuels are being burned to keep the lights on.
I would suggest that they start their protest by not buying petroleum based glues, and not wearing petroleum based clothing. Also they should not use any products that contain petroleum, shampoo, toothpaste, deodorant/antiperspirant, soap, plastics, phones, and the list goes on.
The use of petrochemical based glue to adhere yourself to a painting to protest petrochemicles is as stupid as it comes.
The should use hide glue made from animal connective tissue.
Why don’t they glue themselves to an SUV?
What does an old painting have to do with climate change?
I say just remove their pants and let them stand there,
My youngist son is ‘terrified’ about his future too. He should be! He is a computer engineer who lives in the Washington DC area. He thinks you can write a program to put food on the table and provide electricty for his computer.
I am a slide rule engineer who worked to put electricty on the grid. It was my honor to serve. Computer are great. It allowed to increase my productivitry by a factor of three. Computer allow each new core to be designed to produce three times as much electricty as with the same amout of uranium.
The opposition is ‘terrified’ of ppt bad sounding things is discharge water and radiation 6 orders of magnitude below back ground.
I would be less terrified except for covid experience. With the data available in the first month, I determined that is was no worse than an average cold a flu season.
My way of dealing with irrational fear is to do a calculation. Old people are dying. I am an old person and expect to die. What I was surprised to find is how many old people got covid and did not die.
Ah, yes, the virtual hamburger.
“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.”
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Looked at the Associated Press article in the link above, and (for the life of me) I don’t see a date on it. Could it possibly be that the AP removed the date on the article to keep it from being an object of ridicule for climate realists?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Well, when I linked to it, I found the following first sentence: “A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.”
Didn’t read the first sentence. Never mind.
I bet museum visitors thought it was performance art.
I bet it was, just to get attention. Unfortunately they did..
Apply the French method of removal and then repair the frame, simple.
Just take the painting out of the frame,, and re hang the frame.
New exhibit, open to the public, “The Art of Stupidity”..
.. with a box of rotten tomatoes handy so viewers can add their own touch.
They also targeted paintings by William Turner, who was a Watercolourist.
So, they are equal opportunity art-attackers.