Environmentalists Throw Tomato at Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ Against Liz Truss’ Fracking Plans

A group of environmentalists has thrown tomato soup about the box The sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh in the National Gallery of London. The painting was protected by glass.

According to the environmental movement Just Stop Oil With this act they demand the immediate cessation of any new oil or gas project, after the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Liz Truss, has lifted the veto on fracking. The two activists who have thrown the tomato soup have been arrested “for damage and violation of property.”

This action comes three months after members of the same group pasted paper on the hay cartby John Constable, also in the National Gallery.

Climate change, prices, ‘fracking’…

“Is art worth more than life? More than food? More than justice? Are you more concerned about protecting a painting than the planet? asks this environmental group on social networks. They denounce that “the cost of living crisis and the climate crisis are driven by oil and gas.”

The protest is not only directed against the fracking, also against the high commodity prices thus in defense of a green energy that reverses the result of climate change.

“Thanks to skyrocketing gasoline prices, Millions of British families will not be able to afford to heat up a can of soup this winter. Only civil resistance can get us out of this crisis: it’s time to step up and stand up for what’s right,” he writes. Just Stop Oil in social networks.

In those same networks, this movement calls to demonstrate every day at 11:00 in front of Westminster.

Just Stop Oil It has been mobilizing for two weeks, with protests around the British Parliament and other key points in London. Last weekend, more than a hundred people were arrested as part of the mobilizations promoted by environmental organizations.

Hands in a Picasso painting

This action comes a few days after two climate change activists they will stick their hand in the box massacre in korea of Pablo Picasso exhibited in a museum in Melbourne, in southeastern Australia, with the intention of drawing attention to the climate crisis. The painting was not damaged because it was protected with a thin glass.

During the act of protest, the activists, aged 59 and 49, unfurled a banner at their feet that read: “Climate chaos = war + famine”.

“Climate breakdown will mean increased conflict around the world. Now is the time for each and every institution to stand up to act!” said the environmental group Extinction Rebellion, of which these activists are a part, on its Facebook profile.