Batshit Crazy Eco-Luddites

Posh eco-fanatics and elite Remoaners are luxuriating in our adversity.

The upper-middle classes are revolting – in both senses of the word. We see and read the evidence every day. In the headlines right now are the antics of Just Stop Oil. In recent weeks, those posh student-types with fanciful names have been throwing soup at a Van Gogh painting, vandalising car showrooms, forcing the closure of the Dartford Crossing, obstructing road traffic and (like Extinction Rebellion) displaying a peculiar predilection for glueing themselves to public surfaces. There has also been Animal Rebellion, whose ranks are drawn from the same source, pouring away milk in supermarkets and department stores for the righteous cause of veganism.

The now world-known vandalism by two eco-religionist, self-licensed “soup-throwers” in a London art gallery earned this headline from a Canadian TV network: “Climate activists use Van Gogh vandalism to make us question our priorities.”

What? Did they? How?

An MP questioned what the reaction would be if a “couple of black boys” had thrown soup on a Van Gogh, as environmental activists continued with a 15th day of protests on Saturday.

James Cleverly said “let’s stop giving these attention seeking adult-toddlers the coverage they clearly crave” after members of Just Stop Oil were dragged off a busy road by angry members of the public on Saturday.

The Foreign Secretary tweeted: “I’m just wondering what the reaction would be if a couple of black boys from Lewisham had thrown soup on a Van Gogh or poured milk all over the floor in Harrods.”

UK: A man dragged Just Stop Oil protesters from the road as they blocked motorists.

Credit: @WeAreProtestors pic.twitter.com/XbbYCBHr8v

— Apex World News (@apexworldnews) October 15, 2022

David Suzuki goes on profanity-laden rant at federal government news conference

Environmentalist David Suzuki ranted to federal government ministers, media and tourism industry workers at a news conference Friday afternoon in Vancouver.

The event was held to announce federal funding for B.C.’s tourism sector, but Suzuki took the opportunity to speak out about what he calls the government’s lack of action regarding climate change.

“All this bullshit about how you’re trying to encourage the coming together to this beautiful land, what are we doing about this land? We’re not doing the right things to ensure tourism into the future,” said Suzuki.

Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers captures a rare moment of optimism in an otherwise troubled life. In February 1888, van Gogh rented a property in Arles in the south of France, which was to be known as the ‘Yellow House’. He envisaged this to be a haven for artists, and had invited Paul Gauguin to join him. His hope was to decorate the house with paintings of sunflowers, 11 of which were eventually produced (one was later destroyed in an air raid in Japan). With their bright and striking yellow tones, these paintings are infused with van Gogh’s sense of hope and possibility – a stark contrast to the ominous dark violet blues of the self-portrait produced at the asylum at Saint-Rémy, a year before his suicide.

… The two protesters walked into the room and at 11 am threw the tins of soup over the painting.

Speaking after throwing the soup, Phoebe Plummer, 21, said: “Is art worth more than life? More than food? More than justice?

Soup is worth more than your silly virtue signaling.

Activists with @JustStop_Oil have thrown tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the national Gallery and glued themselves to the wall. pic.twitter.com/M8YP1LPTOU

— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 14, 2022

h/t DM

New Zealand only counts around five million people, but the country is home to over 10 million beef and dairy cows. Naturally, the government would like to tax them.

More specifically, they plan to tax cow’s burps and urine. This is the New Zealand government’s latest effort to tackle climate change by reducing the amount of methane and nitrous oxide cattle release into the atmosphere.

Just Stop Oil’s contempt for the masses should come as no surprise.

Something like class war has broken out on the streets of London. On one side stand working people fighting for their right to do their jobs, to attend to their daily business without hindrance. And on the other side there’s the green movement’s plummy predictors of eco-catastrophe. Those Tarquins and Matildas, often privately educated, who think the Industrial Revolution was the worst thing that ever happened and that we’ll all shortly be consumed by a climate apocalypse of the grubby masses’ own making. Once again the working classes are standing up to these silver-spoon prophets of doom, and I am here for it.

Two Extinction Rebellion activists glued themselves to a prized Pablo Picasso painting at the National Gallery of Victoria to draw attention to environmental causes ahead of the state election next month.

The protesters – who were arrested and later released without charges being laid – used superglue on Sunday to attach themselves to Picasso’s Massacre in Korea, which was on loan to the gallery as part of its Picasso Century exhibition. The NGV said in a statement the artwork, which was protected by a perspex glazing, was not harmed.

Commuters in Washington got into a raging confrontation with climate activists on their way to the nation’s capital Friday, with one even threatening to shoot protesters blocking the highway.

A group called Declare Emergency, which is demanding President Joe Biden declare a ‘climate emergency,’ sat themselves down on I-395, one of the main routes to Washington, and refused to get up.

That soon prompted a furious backlash from drivers. One woman got out of her car and threatened the rabble with a gun if they refused to let her past to go see her mom, while an irate man ripped placards out of the group’s hands and tossed them above the median and onto the other side of the interstate.

"Move before I pull my gun out" said a driver to protesters, claiming her mother is in the hospital.

The group let her drive by.

"Test me, fucking test me" she yelled as one activist backed up.

She later told me the driver indeed grabbed a gun then, which my cam didn't catch. pic.twitter.com/uIp8Pwhoa1

— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) October 7, 2022

Extinction Rebellion and its offshoots hark back to an age-old Millenarian crankery.

At the weekend, a video went viral of 21-year-old climate protester Maddie Budd pouring lighter fluid over her arm and, ill-advisedly though I suppose logically, setting light to it. She is then immediately – almost comically – shocked into consciousness by the subsequent pain. The self-immolation video emerged just after Budd had been filmed befouling a memorial to the late NHS fundraiser, Captain Sir Tom Moore, with liquid human excrement.