Will Vandalizing The Mona Lisa Bring Climate Progress?

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Disruption can change policies. Last week, a climate activist threw a pastry at the Mona Lisa. It is not clear who was targeted, why would the target care, and what action was sought. Contrast this with scientists’ rebellion against JP Morgan Chase to stop banks from funding fossil fuel projects.

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... [+]Climate issues require urgent action. Many are frustrated by the lack of progress and want to put pressure on policymakers to act decisively. Moreover, given the increasing level of climate anxiety, individuals might seek to assert agency through climate protests and lessen the feeling of helplessness.

Yet, individuals undertaking climate protests should also ask the following question: how will this action change what others do about climate issues? Who is the target and why should they respond to my protests? What is the desired outcome? Last week, a climate activist threw a pastry at the Mona Lisa in Paris’ Louvre Museum. Thankfully, the painting was not damaged; just the glass got smeared with cream. The vandalThis was not an impulsive act because the vandal put on a wig and faked a disability to use a wheelchair. So, what might have been the vandal’s “theory of policy change”?

We speculate it was something along the following lines: a dramatic act will draw public attention to climate issues and create demand for climate action. Policymakers will exclaim: “OMG, today it is the Mona Lisa, tomorrow, who knows what. Let’s act on climate now!” Humor aside, it is not clear who was targeted by this action, why would the target care about it, and what specific goals were sought by the vandal.

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That's not the real one. Way too big.

In the end it wasn’t permanent vandalism, and it created a climate story that media might actually report on, for a change. I’m squeamish about vandalism for a cause, especially vandalism of art, but we’re running out of ways to get people to think about climate.

Not the right kind of left-wing activism for you?

Comedy used to be educational, now we're too stupid to understand comedy. Pull the plug. TURNTHEANIMAL

climate what?

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