Eco-Terrorists Aren't What They Used to Be – John Bicknell

Eco-Terrorists Aren't What They Used to Be – John Bicknell

The protesters who flung pumpkin soup at the Mona Lisa in the Louvre in 2024 claimed, as all such protesters do, that they were justified in their action because some higher principle—in this case, unsustainable food production—was at stake. Like their compatriots in Just for Oil, who threw tomato soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers two years earlier, they surely did not doubt their moral righteousness or question that they were following in the honor…