Wealthy Hollywood Big Shot Justifies Vandalizing Stonehenge To Save The Climate

Hollywood writer Adam McKay is defending the climate activists who vandalized Stonehenge on June 19.

McKay defended the stunt in an email letter blasted out by Just Stop Oil, the disruptive British climate activist group that organized and conducted the Stonehenge protest. Comparing disruptive climate activism to the women’s suffrage and civil rights movements, McKay argued that defacing a monument far older than the advent of fossil fuels using orange paint is justifiable due to the purported urgency of the “climate crisis.”

“Did you feel shocked when you saw Stonehenge turned orange? Good,” McKay wrote. “Disruptive actions like these are designed to break the 24/7 cycle of business and culture as usual. They are meant to make us ‘look up’ at our terrifying reality and jolt us into action. Because if we care about protecting history, monuments, art, culture, sports, and all the other things we love about our society, then we need to get off fossil fuels as quickly as humanly possible.”

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“Taking inspiration from the most impactful movements in history, like the suffragette, Civil Rights, and labor movements, the organizers of this action were not aiming to achieve mainstream approval or popularity,” McKay continued. “Being ‘liked’ requires acceptance from the very institutions complicit in the runaway global heating caused by the fossil fuel industry. We have to recognize that traditional, non-controversial, inside-game tactics have failed, and that we are accelerating past 1.5C of heating.”