In July two Just Stop Oil activists, Anna Holland and Phobe Plummer were found guilty of criminal damage after throwing tomato soup over a painting of sunflowers by Van Gogh. They were subsequently sentenced to prison but soon after the stupidity was repeated by three more people from the same organisation – see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c243v5m0r0lo

Comment: How will damaging art support their cause? It won’t. It’s just an attempt to gain publicity. And their cause is extremely doubtful anyway. Stopping oil and gas production would be extremely damaging to the economy and is likely to create more premature deaths from undermining agriculture and fertilizer production. The idiots who are promoting the Stop Oil campaign have simply not studied the science.

Roger Lawson

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