Terrorists' vandalising Stone Henge and trying to force govt policy

I think the issue is that some people see this kind of thing and think that environmentalism has "gone too far' and is not for people like them (who wouldn't throw paint), so they start to see themselves as different from the environmentalists. They the start to question some of the other demands that environmentalism puts on their lives - and vote Reform so that their taxes aren't being spent on the things these vandals are demanding.

Is potentially rendering particular species of lichen (which is not impossible, some are incredibly localised) extinct laughable? Is making it impossible for the assorted crowds of people who go there every midsummer as part of their spiritual beliefs to access the place as they're now going to be seen as untrustworthy/might have paint or other substances on them to destroy more of the particular local ecosystem also laughable?

Seeing as archaeology goes down to the microscopic level in the form of identifying plants, lichens and pollen, they've already added 'pigments from 21st century vandalism' to the history of the site.

They're not clever, they're not heroes or anything special. They're just pretending that their desire to destroy things that don't matter to them is for good reasons instead of the actual reasons of a buzz and more attention.

Summer Solstice is tomorrow. Hundreds of Pagans and Wiccans will be visiting Stonehenge as a place of religious worship. This is the very reason JSO chose this target.
No different than vandalising a mosque the day before Eid or a church on Christmas Eve.

Whilst I don’t think their methods are right I don’t agree that they are terrorists. They target things not people.

Do you think that having taken a lot of measures already that I haven’t considered it ?

It fails because public transport in my rural village is not fit for purpose. First bus out gets me to work at 10:30am, last back means I would have to leave at 4pm.

I read that the curators are investigating the extent of the damage. So they've no idea if there's been any damage. Apparently it was made out of cornflour.

The government are having a laugh calling it an act of vandalism. Don't they want to build a road under it?

Why not give up the car and use public transport?

Can’t understand the people ‘turned off the cause’ by this.
Surely nobody of normal intelligence stops seeing the evidence on climate change because of the actions of a handful of people? That would be truly foolish behaviour.

Dumb argument. Are you saying we can only question ecocide and mass extinction if we first 100% cleanse ourselves of all fossil fuels and derivatives?

I have:

• Divested my pension
• Divested my savings
• Fitted solar and batteries
• Switched to agile renewables
• Replaced my diesel with EV
• Stopped eating beef
• Cut flights

It’s a good start, there’s lots more to do, I’m working on it !

No. I'm worried that wankers like these are what people think of when they consider climate change. Have they ever converted anyone to their point of view? They appear stupid, privileged and out of touch. They make it easier for people to dismiss climate change. Are you sure they are not being financed by oil companies?

So that article tells us more than JSO ever did. The alarmist 'world is burning' and 'present and real emergency' are just words. By standing on top of a tube train shouting that we don't care about our children's future is ridiculous. Of course we do. JSO have to stop the publicity stunts and communicate how THEY are helping/improving the situation. Stand for election, just do something POSITIVE. Stop choosing easy targets involving minimal effort to disrupt. The snooker? Weddings? cricket? How is that helping? Make some positive effort not just empty headed chucking of paint, gluing of hands?

Tell that to the people who died because ambulances couldn't get through the road blocks.

Tell that to the people who died because ambulances couldn't get through the road blocks.

They’re a lot less destructive than oil companies and their controversial and headline-grabbing actions help bring this urgent issue to the top of the agenda.

Now we can all read this for example and see if we’re still happy calling orange cornstarch “terrorism”:

“ We were eating, drinking, breathing the oil”

Just Stop Oil's German equivalent also claimed that the orange paint they sprayed on the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin would 'just wash off in the rain'. It didn't. Cleaning the porous sandstone took three months, costing €140k of taxpayer's money.

Won’t it all just wash off when it rains though?

Have they done anything that causes long-term damage to it? I thought they always chose methods that didn’t cause permanent damage?

Whilst I don’t think their methods are right I don’t agree that they are terrorists. They target things not people.

Just Stop Oil's German equivalent also claimed that the orange paint they sprayed on the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin would 'just wash off in the rain'. It didn't. Cleaning the porous sandstone took three months, costing €140k of taxpayer's money.

No. I'm worried that wankers like these are what people think of when they consider climate change. Have they ever converted anyone to their point of view? They appear stupid, privileged and out of touch. They make it easier for people to dismiss climate change. Are you sure they are not being financed by oil companies?