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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rupert Read and Indigo Rumbelow

Will disruptive action help save the planet?

Just Stop Oil protesters glued themselves to the wall of the National Gallery in London and threw tomato soup at Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers on 14 October 2022.
Just Stop Oil protesters glued themselves to the wall of the National Gallery in London and threw tomato soup at Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers on 14 October 2022. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Guardian

No: If you don’t like shock ploys, the answer is simple. Join us, become the moderate flank

Nothing’s worked. More diplomatically put: nothing has yet worked at anything like the pace required. Is it any wonder that desperation is growing?

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