The prehistoric megalithic structure in England has been targeted by activists spraying orange powder paint, social media footage showed.
Environmental protesters sprayed paint on Stonehenge on Wednesday, with footage showing an orange powder covering some of the stones.
Two protesters dressed in white were seen running towards two of the megaliths, spraying paint, as another person attempted to stop them, in footage released by Just Stop Oil, an environmental activist group focused on the issue of human-caused climate change.
Yeah those people who built that place definitely screwed up the environment. This will show them. Let’s dig up their graves and piss on them to show the world we mean business.
Or maybe let’s not screw up historical sites and go after big business and the ones actually destroying the environment.
I hate it too. But you’re hearing about it and its here on Lemmy. So its working. Idk if bad rep is what they want. They should be trashing the industry buildings and business headquarters of the most polluting companies. They’re getting arrested anyway and at least then they’d look like Captain Planet.
Is it working though? Does discussion of what absolute dipshits they are further the cause? I bet I’d hear about it if they bombed a refinery, but that takes some pretty serious commitment.
“Man, these people are dipshits”, “climate change is a problem though”
That’s an overall positive discussion that wouldn’t have happened otherwise.
So these people are sacrificing their image for discourse about climate change.
You should probably specify which Captain Planet.
This is okay with me
I was today years old when I learned there’s a Don Cheadle Captain Planet short movie!?!
Captain Planet Mother Fucker!
“Happy Arbor Day.”
They have spray painted those HQs as well, the news just doesn’t cover it much. So far the only way to raise awerness has been to do stuff like this. Also they intentionally haven’t damaged anything historic so this works with no issue, they know what they are doing.
It’s like that internet law. The quickest way to the correct answer is to confidently assert an incorrect answer. Maybe the quickest way to getting noticed is whatever will entice the masses to “correct” your actions?
It worked! You’re commenting on it! It worked! It means we should do some more of this…
… God damn it, people. This accomplishes nothing and just makes people angry at you, dipshits.
Much like my witnessing PETA protestors screaming in the face of little children with a bullhorn because they happened to be waiting in line for the circus. I can support removing elephants from a life of circus performing, but I absolutely cannot stand PETA (for this and other reasons like euthanizing people’s pets).
This has been the most effective form of climate protest by far. When they block oil terminals or spray paint car dealerships no one will cover it making the protest pretty much useless, like a guy set himself on fire to protest climate change and that was barely covered. The stuff they do doesn’t actually cause any damage but the media actually covers it because they can spin it as rage bait against the protestors but at least it gets coverage.
Coverage, yes. But the result of that coverage? Making people not want to support climate activism, and maybe even have a negative reaction to anything climate positive. And how effective is that coverage in helping the climate? What changes in climate related policy can be traced back to any of these actions?
Yeah this is totally selfish and just brings attention to them while harming their supposed cause.
It spreads awerness, no other climate protest has even managed that. Some people obviously fall for the news rage bait but if even 1% of people gain any awerness of climate change it will have been the most effective form of climate protests by far purely on what reach it has had.
I would disagree. Like Greta Thunberg , did it right. peaceful protest and didn’t vandalize.
She spoke in front the of UN. These guys are doing it wrong.
Hard disagree. Everyone in the UK HATES these people. To the point at which the government has been able to pass new laws limiting right to protest.
Who made you ambassador for the UK? I’m in the UK and I don’t hate them.
The whole point of protest is to cause disruption, you’re not meant to like it, that’s the point!
Yeah it can cause disruption, I agree. However it should preferably cause disruption for the people you have a problem with. Or simply by using public space which is equally theirs.
Making headlines by defacing historical monuments and art isn’t really getting the public on their side. I’m left wing, most of the people I engage with are, and I’ve yet to meet someone in real life who thinks what Just stop oil are doing is helpful
Do you remember when their protest outside the HQ of BP made the news? Me neither, but I’m sure the high rollers on their 6, 7, 8 figure salaries felt terribly inconvenienced!
I don’t have to agree with their methods or their ideology to recognise their right to protest. We’re talking about dyed cornstarch here, it’s not like they blew the thing up.
The UK also has a weird hatred of trans people, I’d rather not get my opinions from there. Also the UK has been passing police state shit long before this.
Only if you believe what the conservatives want you to believe, and only if you sign up for their culture war narrative
The Labor party runs the same anti trans stuff as the Tories.
You’ll find that whilst far from perfect, that the UK is one of the most accepting and diverse populations on earth.
The amount of knee jerk rage I’ve seen over paint whenever one of these incidents happens. Its paint. It comes off. Its an extremely effective strategy to get attention while causing little to no damage.
In this case it’s actually dyed corn starch so this would literally wash off from the first rain. And yea, this actually gets attention, when they spray painted car dealerships of some of the heaviest polluters, protested oil companies and when a guy set himself on fire to protest climate change it gets almost no coverage.
Bullshit. It’s an archeological site. The now faded ancient paintings risks being ruined as a result of this idiocy.
If dyed cornstarch could destroy anything on the stonehenge then it already would have been. You know it’s outside, right?
Paint and ‘being outside’ are two very different things.
You slow or something?
Are you? Something just left outside for a long ass time will take more damage than even a spray of lead paint can do. And this is just corn starch, not even paint.
until they did.
There’s an exact replica in Esperance, Australia.
Why? Good question. Good question.
Check out Bill Bailey’s Australian Adventure, episode 1. It’s on Channel4.
Ffs just blow up a pipeline or sabotage parts of their infrastructure or follow the higher ups home and deface their homes.
These are all felonies.
Spray painting someone’s house is not a felony. Also who cares.
Stalking is.
Who cares? I’m sure the people who trying to protest without becoming felons. What is this take…
Following someone once is not stalking. For stalking there has to be a persistent pattern. Or else women would be able to get stalkers arrested a lot more often instead of being killed by them.
I can’t simple not see any logic reason in what they are doing…
Might as well paint a toilet orange at the local library and say it’s for the environment.
Probably requires harsh cleaning and that goes into the ground…
Probably requires harsh cleaning and that goes into the ground…
It’s cornstarch, it requires water (rain).
My cornstarch isn’t orange by default…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Environmental protesters sprayed paint on Stonehenge on Wednesday, with footage showing an orange powder covering some of the stones.
Two protesters dressed in white were seen running towards two of the megaliths and spraying paint, as another person attempted to stop them, in footage released by Just Stop Oil, an environmental activist group focused on the issue of human-caused climate change.
The prehistoric structure dates back to somewhere between 3100 BC and 1600 BC, according to archaeologists.
Just Stop Oil has drawn criticism for targeting public treasures in the past, including the vandalism of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers with tomato soup in a publicity stunt at London’s National Gallery in 2022.
Less than a year later, two protesters from the group disrupted play during the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, running onto the court throwing confetti from a picture-puzzle box featuring an image of Wimbledon’s famed Center Court.
On the eve of that tournament, celebrities including Richard Curtis and Emma Thompson had called on Wimbledon to end its partnership with Barclays Bank over the institution’s multibillion-dollar support for fossil fuel projects.
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a reminder that the people complaining about how awful it is to desecrate stonehenge also want to build a motorway right through it
So… they deface a wonder of the world? WTF did Stonehenge ever do to these weirdos?
Big stone is increasing carbon into the air and it doesn’t care!
/s
lol.
Brave and Important
I’m all for their cause but they’ve been going about it the wrong way every single time. They do nothing but piss the general public off. The very people you actually need to get on your side.
When they block oil terminals, spray paint car dealerships of the heaviest polluters or set themselves on fire the news doesnt cover it so no one will even know, while this actually works.
Hehe, I see what you did there.
MLK on climate change (probably):
[…]that [humanities] great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the [oil company] or the [billionaire] but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises [climate aware] to wait for a ‘more convenient season.’
‘Rocks, don’t fight back’ - Bruce Lee.
Something like that.
Enter the Dragon quote 🙏
This makes me want to go club a seal.
Seal clubs are bangin. I don’t blame you.
