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.”
To me, this is far more effective than pouring paint on priceless works of art. At least this is a direct message to a billionaire.
AFAIK nobody poured paint directly on art works, they’ve been protected by plastic covers etc. so the works haven’t been harmed.
The whole point of protests like that is to gather attention in order to spread the message, and it worked. I would guess that this will not become as big of a story. Just using this post as an example: it was posted 2 days ago, but it only has 54 upvotes, 8 comments, and I’m only hearing about i now. Meanwhile, the protest with the works of art spread like wildfire.
You seem to be happy about maybe getting the attention of 1 billionaire, but will this really achieve? She can afford to get it cleaned pretty easy and quick, and it will barely register as a blip on her radar. It has no real effect on her, and no one else will care or even hear about it. How will this change or save the world?
You need the masses on your side to actually change things, but to do that you first need to get their attention and make them aware of the scale and reality of the problem. As “pretty” and “clean” as this might be, it will most likely achieve absolutely nothing.
They should do more than paint the thing. Give it a tour of the seabed.
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Now THIS I can support compared to those paint and milk fiasco from many months ago.
