Activists from the environmental group Futuro Vegetal posted a video showing them standing in front of the superyacht named Kaos, holding a banner that says: “You Consume Others Suffer.” The activists then sprayed the vessel with red and black paint.
“The richest 1% of the world population pollutes more than the poorest 50%,” the activists said in the video.”They are condemning us to a future of pain, misery and desolation.”
I’ve bought into no propaganda, I saw the story about the protests before I ever saw anyone’s reaction to them. And if I, an environmental engineer who cares very much about climate change, had that negative a view of those protests, I can’t imagine how their target audience must feel.
As seen with the story we’re commenting on, you can get attention while also doing something that’s actually pertinent to your cause, and that actually targets people with at least some responsibility for our current climate situation.
It’s like saying that you’re going to deface a supermarket in order to protest AI. People just want to grocery shop, dude, nobody here is responsible for AI. Go away.
So the media you read missed the key point of protests. You may consider chaing your news sources, because you don’t seem to know what was the purpose of these acts. The key point was that the humanity and the art will eventually cease to exist and nobody will be able to look at anything anymore. It was a metaphor to make people realize how important art is for them and the reason they should start caring about climate crisis.