To start, lets don't blame Van Gogh, Vermeer or Monet for the climate change.
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Other options certainly do exist.
This ridiculous and ineffective protest only serves to make people fighting climate change look ridiculous.
That only hurts the movement.
It would be better if these individuals had done nothing at all.
Better yet - if they don’t know what to do about climate change, they can do any paying job, and donate their money to someone who does.
You see this split in the movement around extinction. Folks will shame humans for causing an animal to go extinct while simultaneously coming out in opposition to re-introducing extinct animals to their ecosystem through genetic research (I.e the Wholly Mammoth project).
I’d sum up the split as: one group wants to do something about it. The other wants humans to “just stop.”
Your list of solutions only work for the former group.
I don’t see why this distinction changes anything. Gluing your head to an old painting is ridiculous and counterproductive either way.
If someone believes the solution to climate change is either fewer humans, or less human activity, there are certainly constructive actions they could take.
Fortunately we don’t live in a society where we get to dictate who is in the conversation. We have to have conversations with them and spread the good word of humanity.
I don’t think many of these people understand our planet is dying regardless of humans. 75% of all life on earth is behind us IIUC. Life has been here for 4Bn years, we have another 500m to 800m left in our carbon cycle before it grinds to a halt.
This planet is heading towards a complete extinction event. Unless life manages to colonize other planets, finds a way to artificially maintain the carbon cycle, or replaces the carbon cycle, all life on earth is going to die relatively soon.
Humans are our best shot at accomplishing that imo. I don’t see any other species close enough to figuring that out on these timelines. Stopping the wheel of progress for humans dooms this planet to certain death.
Not everyone can be, and not everyone can afford to support, people like this. Donations are great, assuming you actually have any disposable income after paying off the soaring costs of rent, food, and energy bills.
The way I see it, we throw stuff at the wall to have a chance of acquiring critical mass for change now, or we can wait until it’s too late and we are guaranteed to hit critical mass because people will start feeling the pain and will want to do something about it.
It's easier to glue your head to a national treasure than it is to slog through meetings and the boring drudgery of actually working on fixing the problem is what I'm saying.
This sounds even more counterproductive than someone gluing their head to a glass case.
You are not trying to get some corporation to "go green", you are trying to influence nation state policy. Assasinating some CEO is as meaningless as vandalizing a museum. The only way to meet any "climate goal" is if most nations purposefully hinder their economies, organized boycots against offenders. But lets face it: life without "Made in China", is quite difficult. For an individual as well as a nation.
Corporate polluters are by far the worst, and if the government (which is full of pro-corporate lobbying) has not set up a strong industry regulator with sharp teeth, then the private citizen can do fuck all about it, legally speaking. Which is where you get people gluing themselves to private property and historical artworks, because that's only mildly illegal and unlikely to land one in prison for as long as some other available courses of action - like assasination of the CEOs of those polluting companies.
We are way, way past the point where individual responsibility on the part of each citizen can fix the problem. For one, there are few alternatives available to live a greener lifestyle. For two, even if alternatives are available, the majority of the society (yes, even in the West) simply isn't paid well enough to implement these in the timeframes that we need to meet to not kill the planet (which is now, not "in a couple of decades").