‘Climate justice is bigger than public opinion’: are Just Stop Oil’s tactics right?

For some, throwing tomato soup over the glass of Van Gogh’s sunflowers shines a light on people’s value systems; for others it is ‘rampant criminal damage’. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Guardian

From blocking traffic to throwing soup at Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers, which is protected by glass, Just Stop Oil activists have turned to divisive methods to draw attention to the climate crisis.

Here, six people in the UK say what they think about the environmental group’s tactics.

‘There’s been decades of signing petitions’