Many people have a preference for civility politics. They prefer negative peace over a positive justice. They have similar reactions when vegan animal rights activists point out things that trigger their cognitive dissonance.
Thankfully, their pissing and moaning about these groups still bring more attention to these urgent issues than quietly begging for justice ever has, so even if they don’t like it, these kinds of stunts are still effective.
Protests are meant to disrupt, some people just dont seem to get it.
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It probably doesn’t help that they have an obvious conflict of interest: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/10/21/getty-oil-heiress-funds-climate-crisis-activism-just-stop-oil
Aileen Getty has not personally worked in the oil industry and has poured much of her fortune into philanthropic ventures related to the climate crisis.
Isn’t this what we want these rich people to be doing?
Most people get their opinions from the people around them, and the media they consume. If the media talked about them in a better light, it would change people’s opinions on them. People also hate the idea of being mildly inconvenienced, especially since most of the progress we’ve had from technology has been about improving convenience.
I don’t boo them. But their message is equivalent to “let’s lose over 90% of Earth’s population over a couple of years” which isn’t too popular for some strange reason.
A better message would be “let’s use all what’s left of fossil energy to build out renewable energy infrastructure and downscale our lifestyles radically, as the time is short”. While still losing a lot of people, but that part is not said aloud.
