Climate activists target Botticelli's 'Birth of Venus' in Florence's Uffizi Gallery

apnews.com Climate activists target Botticelli's 'Birth of Venus' in Florence's Uffizi Gallery

Two climate activists have targeted Botticelli’s masterpiece “The Birth of Venus” hanging at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, attaching images of recent flood damage in the Tuscany region on the protective glass.

Two climate activists on Tuesday targeted Botticelli’s masterpiece “The Birth of Venus” hanging at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, attaching images of recent flood damage in the Tuscany region on the protective glass.

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~~And, activists? What have you now accomplished? Why not start going to install PV panels somewhere (or something like that).~~
I could have expressed myself more eloquently I suppose. Down this thread I might have put it slightly better:
The activists did not even inconvenience anybody [..]. At most did they portray themselves as (proverbial) clowns which is far from convincing the “top” something needs to change in order to fix climate change. So I just meant to say there are better ways to be climate activist than this.
- Don't worry, probably they are going to jail for protesting. Soon we won't have any more rabble disturbing the blissful zen of self extinction.
  Under a new law, the protesters risk up to six months of jail time.
  
  I can't believe all these people who still don't get it. We are so fucked. It's not even a joke at this point, we are completely fucked as far as curbing climate change.
  These protestors didn't even cause any damage, they just made a slight convenience and now they're going to go to jail for up to 6 months.
  Meanwhile, we continue to have record carbon emissions year after year. It's as if people using paper straws isn't enough or something...
  
  Which is taking things too far indeed (the jail sentences), I agree with you on that.
- Why can't these activists be activists in a way that I don't have to hear about and inconveniences no one???
  
  That is not even remotely what I was writing. You are pulling a straw-man argument here without even considering what I actually meant. The activists did not even inconvenience anybody, so you did not even make sense either. At most did they portray themselves as (proverbial) clowns which is far from convincing the "top" something needs to change in order to fix climate change. So I just meant to say there are better ways to be climate activist than this.
- A few people installing a few PV panels isn't going to solve climate change. Change has to come from the top.
  
  I meant it would be better than sticking some things to the protective glass in front of a damn painting. Staff pulled it all off within minutes. The "top" is not even going to actually notice that lol.
  
  And yet here we are talking about it. Seems like it's had a bigger impact on the public than just installing panels would have.
  
  No one actually "in charge" sees this thread. My PV panels example might have been poorly chosen.
  
  The point is to get it in our minds so we all bother the people in charge. That's more effective than a few activists asking directly.

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