Three individuals targeted National Gallery paintings an hour after Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were jailed for similar attack in 2022

Three individuals targeted National Gallery paintings an hour after Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were jailed for similar attack in 2022

Climate activists have thrown tomato soup over two Sunflowers paintings by Vincent van Gogh, just an hour after two others were jailed for a similar protest action in 2022.

Three supporters of Just Stop Oil walked into the National Gallery in London, where an exhibition of Van Gogh’s collected works is on display, at 2.30pm on Friday afternoon, and threw Heinz soup over Sunflowers 1889 and Sunflowers 1888.

The latter was the same work targeted by Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland in 2022. That pair are now among 25 supporters of Just Stop Oil in jail for climate protests.

  • @JustARaccoonEnglish
    2•3 months ago

    And we never will if we don’t start making progress on it, it’ll always be unfeasible because the powers that be don’t start making changes unless it’s doable within one election cycle. Just Stop Oil isn’t asking for immediate stopping of oil, just moving the deadline to 2030, which means there’s a few years to realistically invest in other forms of energy generation like nuclear, green energy, and other ways.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•3 months ago

      The OP wanted a complete stop of production of fossil fuels a decade ago. That is a completely different statement than we need to curb fossil fuel use.

      • @JustARaccoonEnglish
        1•3 months ago

        Yes but by asking to stop it a decade ago naturally the rest of the timeline moves too, so we should’ve had a more aggressive push against oil and gas 2 decades ago or more and transitioned much sooner to green energy.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•3 months ago

          You can’t just cut and paste progress forward. Battery technology is still two or three decades away from being able to fully replace fossil fuel use. Lithium batteries are not the answer there’s just not enough lithium and it can’t be refined fast enough. Even completely replacing fossil fuel electricity generation would take three decades and there’s no technological hurdles, it’s just scaling manufacturing and construction resources to build that many plants. The scale of these efforts is hard to grasp.

          • @JustARaccoonEnglish
            1•3 months ago

            What stats are you working off of for those 3 decade estimates? Either way the point remains, the sentiment of “we should’ve done X decades ago” doesn’t mean we should now be able to do it instantly, it just means we had the information and knowhow to start working towards it decades ago and we didn’t do it.

            • @[email protected]English
              1•3 months ago

              It’s not states estimates it’s estimates to create 4,000 Terrawatt hours of generation capacity (fossil fuel capacity in the US). To put that in context that’s 2,000 Hoover dams $1,600,000,000,000 or 60 years of spending the whole GDP. Looks like my 30 year forecast was overly optimistic.

              Transportation has technicological hurdles, no amount of effort can solve this problem without breakthroughs in technology. It’ll be a long time before there is even a path to eliminating fossil fuels for transportation.