Huge ‘Butchered’ artwork installed on North Sea gas rig by Greenpeace activists
Huge ‘Butchered’ artwork installed on North Sea gas rig by Greenpeace activists
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Huge ‘Butchered’ artwork installed on North Sea gas rig by Greenpeace activists
“I call it Butchered,” the British sculptor told the Guardian. “I’m referring to the butchering of our environment. It is at the simplest level blood on a canvas. A reference to the destruction – the bleeding – of our globe of our state, of being.
I hate to be the one to say this but what's the point?
Like sure it was probably a fun, camraderie inducing exercise for the Greenpeacers and it got them out doors and doing teamwork, but it's not bringing attention to anything the general public doesn't already know. And it's certainly not changing opinions on anything for the higher ups, except maybe harsher punishments for eco-activists.
So if the resources used for this stunt are more damaging to the world than not having pulled it at all, and the activists involved are going to be arrested and face serious repercussions for tampering with an oil rig, what was the point?
It's refreshing people's attention, bringing climate change back into the news cycle for a minute, and demonstrating that ordinary people need to be willing to do illegal shit to stop these corpo ghouls from wrecking our environment.
It's a little bit of paint in the ocean. Nothing at all compared to what that oil rig is doing.
Certainly not the most effective protest in the world, but I'd say it's at least better than nothing.
Climate change has not been out of the news cycle for months, and it probably won't ever really be again. Every day there are new reports of flooding or record heat, or data centres using up all the water, or melting glaciers, etc.
And how are corporate ghouls being stopped by Greenpeace hanging a banner on a oil rig?