Activist glues his head to 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' painting in The Hague

Re:Activist glues his head to 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' pa... by MonkeyMalarky on Thursday October 27, 2022 @03:46PM (#33363015)

Only if you are willfully blind. Between crazy heat waves in Europe, the mass die off snowcrabs, unprecedented forest fires and flooding, unending droughts, various Arctic parts not fully freezing, disappearing glaciers etc. etc. it honestly feels like a week doesn't go by where something climate related isn't in the news. Gluing one's self to famous painting isn't going to convince the people who are already ignoring the real stories.

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Re:Activist glues his head to 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' pa... by noobermin on Thursday October 27, 2022 @09:05PM (#33366223)

If it's so powerful a narrative in the media why isn't anything being done? And of that being done, it being so insignificant in comparison to what is the bare minimum needed?

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Re:Activist glues his head to 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' pa... by luckylion on Friday October 28, 2022 @04:59AM (#33369170)

Is there really nothing that is being done, at all? No solar + wind farms? No process optimization for energy saving at industrial sites, no highly efficient insulation for buildings etc etc? You could argue that not enough is being done, but nothing? That's ridiculous.

Instead of seeking media attention, protesters could also just learn how to install solar panels or build wind turbines. We have a tremendous shortage of skilled labor in those areas, which increases the price of installation and limits the speed of transformation.

But it's harder than gluing yourself to something and bringing a photographer, so they won't. Which suggests to me that it's not really about climate change. Climate change is the medium, the message is narcissism.

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