Roughly two years ago, in October 2022, the fight against climate change appeared to shift all at once to outlandish stunts. After two young women threw cream-of-tomato soup on van Gogh’s Sunflowers, in London’s National Gallery, protesters hit artworks, cultural treasures, roadways, soccer games, and more with seemingly increasing frequency. Disruption was the new currency. But would it achieve anything? The climate movement in its many forms has never, over the course of five decades, so much as slowed carbon emissions. (Emissions have in fact only accelerated.) What good can making a scene do now? As New York’s Elizabeth Weil shows us in her latest story: more than we might think.
—Katie Ryder, features editor, New York |
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