Just Stop Oil vandalise Stonehenge by spraying it with orange paint.

@Peaceandnamaste of course it is. No children would pose like that, I mean the starving children in Africa thing. That’s just insulting. Also, you think the biggest pop star in the world would jeopardise her reputation like that? 😂
😂😂

That pic is as fake as Trump’s bone spurs.

@jackieash I think the people who actually believe that shit is real know full well that it isn't; but they WANT to believe it because they're jealous of her for whatever reason.

(plus how has she got hold of an ice cream cone in the middle of, supposedly, a destitute tribal village in the middle of nowhere?)

@Vin53 Not agreeing with it, but to be fair it was flour based paint thrown from a paper bag, so they're not being inconsistent just bonkers.

@Luciebelle it still could have done damage. There are several rare species of lichen on the rocks, which ironically are indicators of climate change. JSO expected the flour to “wash off in the rain” which could have caused significant damage to them. Luckily the stones have been cleaned with specialist air blowers

@Illyria Yeah all I meant was it wasn't (I read) oil based paint. But still, I agree with you

@BlueVeins yeah let's watch them stop a coal train going into a coal plant

@dale74 happened here in Australia

@Illyria Spray paint would have been even more serious criminal damage due to being far harder to remove than the powder they did use.

I hope they are made to pay the cleaning costs.

@whowasthatmaskedman

I can't argue with that. 🤷‍♂️😂

@calicuz And dont get me started on those egyptian hieroglyphics. Pre spray paint graffitti.😷

@Illyria I have no hatred towards the people however. I believe they are mislead in how they represent themselves.

For example they have the right idea to save the environment so why not fund a project for a water/hydrogen fuelled engine and compete with the industry?

If they took this energy and time to study rather than vandalize they could make a real difference in the world.

@Sleepysheep See, that's where I'm at with it. They picked a really stuріd way to protest.

@Elessar But if you keep the community divided against itself, they wont blame you for the problem. A lesson many politicians around the globe have learned. (Or should I say, the money behind them)😷

@Peaceandnamaste Oh, fun! A false flag operation!

@ArishMell I've seen it. It's amazing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryhill_Stonehenge

@LeopoldBloom It's impressive! Thankyou for that!

@Richard65 And will it achieve anything whatsoever? No. All it will do is piss off the people who might otherwise be sympathetic to their cause.

@Illyria ever heard PT Barnum's phrase, 'there's no such thing as bad publicity'?

Their aim is to push the subject firmly into the apathetic public's consciousness, which stunts like this achieve. The Suffragettes were also hated and considered an annoying public nuisance.

@SW-User As are the chemicals used to clean them off😷

@SW-User @whowasthatmaskedman Possibly - but are also petroleum derivatives.

Don't tell Just Stop Oil though - they'd not understand it. They talk and act as if their science education stopped at the Infants' School "nature-table" level.

To be fair though, these lunatics did not use spray-paint on Stonehenge, but some sort of coloured powder that was soon, and easily, washed off.

@SW-User Supposedly they used paint made from cornstarch.

@Nimbus YES! They could target just about ANYONE else to make their message heard! Like Downing Street!

@zonavar68 Indeed!

I expect most of their clothes are made from Nylon and other synthetic fabrics, too. And I wonder how they arrived at Stonehenge, right out in the countryside? On foot, wearing plastic-soled boots, or cycles perhaps with carbon-fibre frames? Or planned their escapade - using modern telephones etc. impossible without petroleum-derivate materials?

I wonder how many of them have even the most basic understanding of everyday science and engineering they should have been taught (or were but failed to learn) in school science and geography. Though I worry far too many people in politics, the Press and even civilised environmental campaigning are just as ignorant.

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Some JSO vandals have just been jailed - rightly in my view although think massive fines, compensation orders and community-service orders would be better - for causing enormous disruption to many thousands of people using one of Britain's most important motorways.

I doubt it even dawned on them that that action would have wasted a very large quantity of petrol and Diesel fuels with needless proportional rise in CO2 pollution, as drivers tried to find alternative, much more difficult and congested routes. Still, the JSO fools were not paying for that fuel, so why would they care?
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Please don't get me wrong -

I know the prospect of artificial climate-change by burning vast amounts of hydrocarbon fuels is real and was first raised over 100 years ago.

Very real too, is pollution anyway in crowded cities, including occasionally, thick smogs. Hence measures like the Clean Air Acts, introduced in 1950s Britain after a terrible smog (Smoke+Fog portmanteau) exacerbated or caused many respiratory diseases, even fatalities, in London.

(Coal was still a major fuel or fuel-source industrially and domestically, in Britain at the time; while the Diesel engined vehicles then used did not have the sophisticated injection systems, particle-filters and NOx catalysers of their much more efficient, modern versions.)

What I do object to, is arguing technical matters from no basic technical knowledge; and I certainly have no time for vandalism and its dim-witted "direct action" apologias by the vacuous.

@zonavar68 Your point?

Luckily English Heritage (the site's custodians) have been able to clean the mess off. I hope the Just Senseless Objectionables are made to pay the costs of doing so.

@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP EXACTLY

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout Good Lord, I actually agree with you for once.

@Ynotisay More to the point would be making them clear up litter and fly-tipping, and removing graffiti.

As for "cause", I am not sure they really have a genuine "cause". Or if they do, I don't believe they understand it.

@ArishMell Yeah. I guess "cause" is sort of a general thing. Stop polluters is just a little vague. And that's why it's so futile. If there's no tangible, actionable outcomes from protests then people are just yelling to yell. And, in this case, virtue signaling along the way.

@Illyria Yep. No sense.

@MarmeeMarch