NY Times Effectively Praises Van Gogh ‘Soup Throwers’
The New York Times published a garbage essay by a radical environmentalist defending young climate fanatics for throwing “soup” on a world-famous Vincent van Gogh painting, calling it an example of “creative methods” to stop ‘fossil fuel’ production.
Lund University Professor Andreas Malm emerged as a white knight for “Just Stop Oil” protestors who recently threw “soup” onto Vincent van Gogh’s world-famous 1889 painting, “Sunflowers.”
But instead of defending van Gogh – a Dutch painter who died in 1890 and who probably contributed next to nothing to the so-called ‘climate crisis’ – Malm claimed that “History may absolve the soup throwers” in an Oct. 20 guest essay for The Times.
As Malm conceded, “Vincent van Gogh is not responsible for our climate breakdown. He was not the C.E.O. of an oil and gas company or a coal merchant.”
But that was the last reasonable argument that the professor made during his rambling, 1121-word essay.
The professor even went so far as to justify “property destruction” to advance a ‘climate revolution’:
“As for the ethics of property destruction, it is not, in this case, very complicated. Fossil fuels kill people.
If you disrupt the flow of such fuels and damage the machinery they impel, you prevent deaths. You stop the perpetration of harm.
You may destroy an inanimate object — and no one in the climate movement is suggesting anything other than targeting dead things — so as to protect living beings.
Or, put differently, if you are locked in a house on fire, you have a right to break some windows to get out.”
Malm justified his promotion of “sabotage” as long as it is “precise and gritty.” The Guardian reported in April that “Just Stop Oil” activists vandalized gas stations in England. Malm, of course, in The New York Times said “they hit the nail on the head” because gasoline “is a fuel of global warming.”
But if gas stations and van Gogh paintings aren’t worth protecting, what is?
Not much, according to Malm.
“There is a whole planetary layer of stations, pipelines, platforms, derricks, terminals, mines and shafts that must be shut down to save humanity and other life-forms,” he wrote.
But Malm didn’t stop there, riding the crazy, eco-extremist train right down to the finish. The professor gave a nod to “climate militancy,” which supposedly encompasses “civil disobedience” and even “guerilla warfare” to reduce global ‘carbon’ emissions.
The “soup throwers” wore shirts emblazoned with the words “Just Stop Oil,” corresponding with a far-left group dedicated to eradicating ‘fossil fuels’.
“Fossil fuels are killing us,” the group’s website proclaims. The video of the soup throwing has garnered thousands of views on YouTube and is prominent on the front page of Just Stop Oil’s website.
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bill
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The press and the global warming crowd deliberately suppress the fact that ANTARCTICA has had record cold, snow and ice accumulation for decades. Even the last few years, ANTARCTICA cold, snow and ice have hit record numbers.
The number of catastrophic hurricanes and tornadoes has dwindled the last couple of decades.
The oceans have not risen appreciably other than the normal waxing and waning of ice melt and evaporation cycles. If you try to google it, the first few pages will be pro global warming but when you drill down to the more reputable “scientific” sites it says no global warming. Also droughts, cold snaps, and weather extremes are the rule all throughout recorded history. There are records clear back to the 1400’s verifying this fact. One has to dig for this data because the political and globalists agenda has big-tech, the leftist media, et al working at sequestering real facts as the “Brown Shirts” did for Hitler. Most folks don’t even go past the first page and these hyena Globalists at google know this.
Lastly, look up the sun-spot cycle which is an eleven year cycle. The weather patterns on earth are affected profoundly by this cycle.
They try to explain it away with all kinds of mental gymnastics but it doesn’t pass the smell test. Funny one never hears of this, but then again suppression of reality by ideologues is commonplace.
The so-called doomed Great Barrier Reef is thriving and growing.
(Rescued from Spam bin) SUNMOD
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aaron
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Who thinks the paintings are the real deal?
Would they really let the common people have such access to a valuable piece of property?
critical thinking and logic go a long way
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aaron
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have any of these actors been arrested and charged for their crimes?
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John Doran
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c3headlines.com & click on Quotes.
Find Maurice Strong’s quote re the destruction of industrial society.
Strong, billionaire oilman, Rockefeller sidekick, & thief bears a huge responsibility for fostering the climate scare fraud.
JD.
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