If an ordinary person walks up to a priceless work of art in a gallery and either glues themselves to the glass casing or throws food over it, they are arrested and fined – but if you vandalise art in the name of ‘climate’ you get to grace the headlines of the world’s Woke publications and bask in the gratitude of renewables barons and billionaire CEOs who stand to make a fortune from these childish antics.
Oh, and you might get a slap on the wrist if the cops manage to drag themselves away from policing wrong-think on social media.
When we say there is a ‘Culture War’ going on, conservatives didn’t realise that the physical treasures of Western culture would find themselves lobbed into the frenzy of misguided youth activism incited by communist lecturers still sore that their preferred ideology killed more people last century than Hitler.
It’s tricky, you see, to be a virtuous social warrior when the heroes of collectivism are all mass-murdering psychopaths. I imagine it’s also tough to reignite a Marxist revolution when the university-educated ‘working class’ use an underclass of UberEats drivers to summon their soy lattes, paid for by mummy’s credit card. They’re not exactly ‘workers’ so they’ve been re-imagined as terribly oppressed victims. There was nothing else left in Pandora’s Box of bad ideas.
Just Stop Oil – the group targeting art galleries – is a UK activist outfit founded in February of 2022 and funded largely by the American-based Climate Emergency Fund (CEF). There’s some heavy irony that the founder of CEF is quoted in a World Economic Forum article discussing the pressures of ‘climate anxiety’ – a phenomenon caused almost entirely by organisations telling children the world is going to end.
Groups like Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion, (and most of our politicians?) share cult-like doomsday rhetoric, quoting various ‘climate scientists’ who insist the world will either end or pass an irreversible moment of destruction in three or four years if we don’t agree to their demands. Conscripting impressionable young people into what amounts to a death cult used to be a matter for child protection services, now it forms the cornerstone of mainstream education.
There are thousands of these climate groups, continuously spawning and dying, shifting shells and shuffling their finances around – partly to hide the reality that their claims never come true, but also because it makes it more difficult to see who is behind them and how much money they are making from their ‘give us money or you’ll all die’ pleas.
The Christian Climate Action group assures us that the Just Stop Oil campaign is necessary. Oddly, their website is branded with the Extinction Rebellion logo topped by a cross – just as Rome is littered with Egyptian Obelisks with the same gesture.
‘Following our January gathering in Birmingham, and a recent zoom meeting with Roger Hallam, a growing number of people in CCA are feeling drawn to sign up for Just Stop Oil. The need for civil disobedience is greater than ever, as the world moves ever further towards climate disaster. Some have already signed up to take part in the action itself, others are acting in an admin / back office capacity, but whatever way you choose to be involved, please do consider carefully whether you can give your time and energy to this important campaign.’
Roger Hallam is the notorious co-founder of Extinction Rebellion.
‘Just Stop Oil is going to need lots of money,’ the website continues. ‘They are asking people to donate as much as they can.’
This is a religion and like all religions, it uses emotional manipulation as a means to convince people to hand over their money to the collective. Considering Just Stop Oil encourages people to commit crimes in the name of ‘activism’ – whether that be gluing their hands to artwork, holding up traffic, or interfering with the lives or ordinary people – one wonders why they are allowed to keep that money if it is in whole or part benefiting from criminal activity.
While many thousands of ordinary people are probably being fleeced of their cash based on some wishy-washy promise to ‘save the planet’, there are plenty of elite donors and philanthropists with green-shaped share portfolios that prop up these disruptive campaigns and ensure that the topic of ‘climate’ continues to rise to the top of the public conversation.
Those who stand to benefit from the sale of renewables technology, businessmen whose financial interests lay in the increased prices of minerals used in their production, CEOs who sell otherwise useless climate-stalking ideas (such as carbon credits and footprints), and banking interests who would love nothing more than to create a system of social punishment to ‘save the planet’ (and quietly control the behaviour of their customers) – are all lining the pockets of these rag-tag climate groups.
It’s time we look past the abuse of our children (who are told they will die if they don’t throw soup over a Van Gogh), and drag out the conspirators behind the curtain – the rich end of town that is using child soldiers to manipulate Western Civilisation onto a self-destructive path that uses our collective empathy against us.
While the kids think they are saving the planet, the businesses that fund them are tearing the planet apart. Renewables technology is driving the largest mining boom in human history while simultaneously robbing civilisation of reliable, affordable energy. The poorer we get, the more powerful and rich these CEOs become.
They are not saving the planet, they are buying it, one soup-splashed oil painting at a time.
Let’s pretend that we agree to the demands of Just Stop Oil. Most of these kids are vegans who like to eat a lot of food grown in different parts of the world. What do they imagine their avocados are going to look like after six months on a sailing ship? They aren’t ready for an oil-free world and I wager their masters have no intention of creating one.
Alexandra Marshall is an independent writer. If you would like to support her work, shout her a coffee over at donor-box.
