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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am sure they knew it would not damage the painting and wanted to get people thinking about the value of things (or of things vs a livable climate). [/quote]

But it's a convoluted argument. Yes, money is spent to preserve great works of art. But most of it is raised independently by museums, arts organizations, and wealthy art lovers. It's not like the government is funneling money that could go to addressing climate change into art preservation. The way these protests are staged makes it seem like they are attacking the art itself OR people who are looking at the art. Neither of which are appropriate targets of anger or criticism from the perspective of climate activism.

If you wanted to make the same argument in an actually effective way, you'd stage a protest outside a popular art museum on a busy day that featured some kind of installation or projection of environmental devastation due to climate change -- before and afters of glaciers, eroded shoreline, depictions of climate change caused flooding, etc. And then a big statement that says something like "We Need to Act NOW to Protect the Ultimate Work of Art." You could enlist actual artists in the project.

Instead they likely turned people off the cause by seeming disrespectful of something a lot of people rightfully care a lot about. Art makes a lot of people's lives worth living. It's a reason to combat climate change, to make art possible, not something to be placed in opposition to climate change. They aren't in competition for resources.[/quote]

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