I'm fine with the Just Stop Oil protests. A lot of well-meaning people's response to a protest action is to assume the position of answering the question "will this offend the person I imagine as the intended audience of this protest?" but you can also just not do that.
It may or may not be a successful tactic, but they are trying something. We should all try things. And when I see actual flesh-and-blood climate activists in conflict with their natural enemy, Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.
It is a tactic evolved in a context: it makes media noise because seeming-to-have-actually-damaged-something-priceless tricks the media into noticing that it happened and reporting on it; most forms of protest are just vanished into nothingness and no one ever even hears that it even happened.
It's a tactic designed to encourage and activate 5% of tepid supporters into active supporters who are willing to do things, at the cost of increased tsk-ing from opponents and tepid supporters.
I have a poem loosely about this called "The Case For Letting the Getty Center Burn" which eh never mind
I can’t legally advocate what I believe to be the only effective method here so I’m not gonna quibble with the people with the balls to at least throw pebbles
