2023-07-15 12:27:34
the scenes of environmentalists who throw paint at classic paintings in quaint museums or stain the windows of luxury clothing stores have become a form of protest why some country Europa It’s news quite often. Now, a private plane who was parked in the Ibiza aerodrome was sprayed with black and yellow paint by three activists from an organization that seeks to expose the climate crisis and “luxury emissions”.
“Your luxury = our climate crisis.” With that slogan, three young people managed to stick to a plane that they used as a canvas. The authors of the protest intervention are part of Vegetable Futurean organization that carries out peaceful protests against the “inaction of the institutions in the face of the climate problem” and demands for changes in the agri-food system.
Activists stain a Monet painting
“We act. We blocked the Ibiza airport. This morning, three colleagues have entered the runway of the Ibizan airport, They have thrown paint using #fire extinguishers on a private jet and have stuck to itforcing the track to be closed for several hours,” the organization explained in a thread Twitter.
Right there, the activists warned that “institutions would have to be acting as if the temperature increase limit set by the Paris agreement had already been exceeded, since everything indicates that this decade will be exceeded and we do not stop breaking records for temperature increases”.
They also pointed out that no political party has an package of “forceful” measures to mitigate the crisis climate change “nor does it seem capable of implementing the changes we need.
“We need a change in the production model and we cannot wait for the institutions to act. We have been warning for more than 30 years that we are headed for the worst scenarios and we are beginning to suffer from them. The climate crisis implies forced displacement, famine and suffering for all the inhabitants of our planet,” they completed.
The protest at the Ibiza airport.
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The group of militants against climate change maintains in all its interventions that we must act “as if we were in an emergency.” And he misses no opportunity to warn that planet Earth is facing massive crop failures and famine. In addition, another of the remarks has to do with a class issue: they maintain that “the richest 1% pollutes the same as the poorest 53%”.
Who are the “anti-luxury” militants?
The organization is characterized by showing the negative impact that the circulation of luxury vehicles such as cars, boats and, in the latter case, private planes. The slogan of the campaign is “Jets and yachts, the party’s over” (Planes and ships, the party is over).
What they seek is, in addition to making the environmental impact visible, is to demand the prohibition of private jets and the Elimination of the luxury emissions that these media cause.
Street and class struggle
Visibilization and protest actions have had their consequences. The response of the Civil Guard became effective days ago from a request for an information brigade to arrest three members of Futuro Vegetal.
The protest in an emblematic nightclub in Ibiza.
The first of the protests of the week ending was in a mythical place on the island. It was in front of the Pacha nightclub, when two members of Futuro Vegetal sprayed the cherries on the logo of the dance venue, a symbol of Ibiza. Climate activists say that this type of actions in characteristic places have more impact that if they are going to protest in front of a government headquarters.
There was also a protest in front of the fast food place KFC, whom they accused of having “blood on their hands.” The idea was to denounce the meat industry, always through non-violent methods of protest, they maintain. They do not seek to question any person in particular, but generate collective consciousness.
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