Climate protesters target Botticelli painting in Florence | talian activists on Tuesday stuck photographs of climate change devastation to a glass panel protecting Botticelli’s famed Birth of Venus painting at the Uffizi museum in Florence.

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1. I guess attacking art for the ages makes sense when you consider that the problem of preserving art for posterity does not make sense unless we insure a posterity, which would require maintaining a livable climate, which is what they’re protesting about.

2. I don’t get it. We have gotten to a point where, I feel, most climate demonstrators are just engaging in street theatre that most Americans will react to with a self-pat about the first amendment or see as an inconvenience.

   We desperately need a more radical movement, one that makes mainstream climate politics seem as an appealing moral compromise position. And one that scares bourgeois political castes. This is how every nonviolent movement has succeeded, via a duality of tactics this way.

   But stuff like this is just random and… dumb. If anything, the fact a civilization can produce timeless art is a reason to take pride in preserving it.