Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoStonehenge sprayed with orange powder paint by Just Stop Oil activistswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up110arrow-down1external-linkStonehenge sprayed with orange powder paint by Just Stop Oil activistswww.theguardian.comFlying Squid@lemmy.worldM to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square76fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoOne hopes the powder doesn’t cause any lasting damage to a priceless piece of human cultural heritage.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoThat is my worry. Even if it gets washed off by rain, it can get into cracks.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoEh. That, too, is the history of the monuments.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoThat doesn’t justify it.
minus-squaremojofrododojo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months ago…while I may not like the forms their protest takes, I think - well, they certainly think - it’s worth your ire if it opens people’s eyes to the oncoming worldwide disaster. suspect they’re right.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoWhose eyes do you think aren’t open at this point that this stunt would open them? Like I said elsewhere, this is like what PETA does and people are still eating a lot of meat.
minus-squaremojofrododojo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoSo you really think you understand what’s going on? https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/6/16/what-grief-for-a-dying-planet-looks-like-climate-scientists-on-the-edge-2 because the scientists are scared shitless. dunk on peta all you want, it’s not going to stop the world cooking.
One hopes the powder doesn’t cause any lasting damage to a priceless piece of human cultural heritage.
That is my worry. Even if it gets washed off by rain, it can get into cracks.
Eh.
That, too, is the history of the monuments.
That doesn’t justify it.
…while I may not like the forms their protest takes, I think - well, they certainly think - it’s worth your ire if it opens people’s eyes to the oncoming worldwide disaster.
suspect they’re right.
Whose eyes do you think aren’t open at this point that this stunt would open them?
Like I said elsewhere, this is like what PETA does and people are still eating a lot of meat.
So you really think you understand what’s going on?
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/6/16/what-grief-for-a-dying-planet-looks-like-climate-scientists-on-the-edge-2
because the scientists are scared shitless.
dunk on peta all you want, it’s not going to stop the world cooking.