Xu Xunlei.
aWe know that climate change is causing frequent extreme weather events around the world, but why are human beings "experiencing extreme behavior" because of this?
According to the reference news network on January 31, 2024, ** said: Two ** people toLeonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in ParisThe protective bulletproof glass splashed pumpkin soup claims the right to "healthy and sustainable food". The two "soup-throwing" women were immediately taken away from the scene by security personnel and have been detained.
The incident occurred at around 10 a.m. local time on January 28, and the two perpetrators were climate activists from the group Food Back Strike. The "purpose" of the organization is the so-called "for human health, for green life". The Louvre said the two hid pumpkin soup in a thermos and brought it into the museum. The exhibition hall had to be closed for an hour before reopening to the public.
Although the Mona Lisa is protected from damage by a glass cover, it is an invisible "ordeal". The actions of the radicals, however, have brought "shame" to humanity.
"Green life" is of course important, but it's ridiculous to take a famous painting. The French Minister of Culture criticized the "soup spilling" incident: "The Mona Lisa, as our heritage, belongs to future generations, and there is no reason to attack it. ”
b Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is a representative work of Italian Renaissance painting and the treasure of the Louvre. Previously, "Mona Lisa" has also been "martyred" many times, first stolen, and then "attacked" many times, and it is indeed "ill-fated".
In August 1911, the Mona Lisa disappeared from the Louvre Museum due to self-theft. Two years later, it appeared in Italy, and after several years of negotiations, Italy returned the Mona Lisa to France in 1920.
In 1956, the Mona Lisa was splashed with an acidic liquid, which damaged the underside of the painting, and the Louvre installed a glass cover for this purpose. On December 30 of the same year, someone threw a stone at the painting, shattering the glass and shedding a piece of paint.
In 1974, the "Mona Lisa" was exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum, and the visitors were full, and the museum was negligent in not setting up a special passage for the disabled. Fortunately, the painting was protected by a glass cover. After being exhibited in Japan, the Mona Lisa was transferred to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow as planned, and never left the Louvre since.
In August 2009, a Russian woman who was denied French citizenship bought a clay mug at the Louvre and smashed it at the Mona Lisa, but was fortunately blocked by bulletproof glass.
After that, it was the extreme environmentalists who did such good deeds. In May 2022, a man disguised as an elderly woman threw custard pies at the painting, claiming that the artists were not paying enough attention to "the earth".
The next time the extreme environmentalists will do something extreme, I don't know when.
Many people may not know that the Louvre also houses a sketch of the Mona Lisa, donated in 1956 by Bartolomeo Eustapio, a wealthy exiled businessman of Italian origin, and first exhibited at the Louvre in 2007. No one is sure to splash paint on the sketches, because they don't have a lot of influence. But extreme environmentalists should pour something into sketches, because there is a better reason: you da Vinci shouldn't do sketches first, because that would be a waste of paint and not environmentally friendly!
In fact, there have been many similar absurd incidents, and many famous paintings have been targeted by extreme environmentalists.
On July 22, 2022, at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, extremist environmentalists glued their hands to SandroBotticelli's famous painting "Spring".and display the banner "Last Generation, No Gas, No Coal".
On October 14, 2022, at the National Gallery in London, England, two extreme environmentalists from the organization "Stop Extracting Oil" sent a toVan Gogh's masterpiece "Sunflowers".Spilled tomato juice and gave a radical speech on the spot. This "Sunflower" is worth about 72.5 million pounds, which is equivalent to 5800 million RMB.
October 24, 2022, Barberini Museum, Potsdam, GermanyMonet's famous painting "Haystack".Throwing mashed potatoes, expressing opposition to fossil fuel extraction, claiming to "sacrifice a picture as a reminder of the fact that carbon emissions are killing people and the environment," and threatening to "build on the good work." This "haystack", the market ** is as high as 1$100 million.
On October 27, 2022, at the Mauritshuis Palace in The Hague, the Netherlands, three environmentalists were vindicated by Johannes AVermeer's famous painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring".One of them glued his head to it.
On November 15, 2022, at the Leopold Museum in Vienna, Austria, two radical environmentalists pay tribute to GustavKlimt's famous painting "Death and Life".Splashing a black oily liquid, one of them also glued his hand to a glass frame as a gesture of resistance to oil and gas extraction.
How can a famous painting be so badly killed? These extreme environmentalists,I only know how absurd it is to protect the natural environment and not to protect cultural heritage.
They sprinkled their anger on the dinosaur skeletons. On October 30, 2022, at the Natural History Museum in Berlin, Germany, two conservationists glued themselves to a pillar under the skeleton of a 66-million-year-old dinosaur, and one of the women said that she was afraid of forest fires, water shortages, droughts, famine and war, "The dinosaurs became extinct because they could not withstand the huge climate change, and this is also threatening us".
They spread wild, even to Marathon. On September 24, 2023, at the site of the annual Berlin Marathon, environmentalists splashed paint on the track at the beginning of the stage, lay on the ground, and clashed with **. They come from Germany's "last generation" extreme environmental group, whose mission is "against global warming, against fossil fuels".
A week earlier, on September 17, Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate was also attacked by the "last generation", who sprayed the columns of the Brandenburg Gate with a variety of paints.
There is no one who expresses such a brain-dead beat. Netizens commented very politely: "Splashing paint is not environmentally friendly at all, and it is environmentally friendly to run a marathon in a group." "Environmentalists? Aren't marathons green enough? I'm in the wrong place, I should go to the F1 circuit. ”“It's all about doctrine on the lips, but it's all business behind it
These radical environmentalists in Europe, believing that "justice is mine", have taken the idea of environmental protection to the extreme. Their unreasonable and absurd practices are to attract attention, expand their influence, and "stimulate people's morale"; They believe that "time is running out" and "environmental protection is not about inviting guests to dinner, and we can't be gentle and frugal", and we must be ruthless.
This can be described as "".Green terrorism
d The "white left" of the extreme left, the white left, loves to engage in this kind of thing, and its influence is not small.
However, if you take a step forward in truth, it becomes a fallacy.
A young Swedish woman who rose to fame as a teenager and a climate activistGreta ThunbergAt the age of 15, he began to "strike for the climate", and has always been known as a radical environmental fighter, and became the cover character of Time magazine at the age of 16. In August 2019, she went to New York to attend the United Nations climate summit, claiming that in order to avoid carbon emissions, she did not take a plane and took a solar-powered sailboat instead, and after 15 days, she crossed the Atlantic to reach New York. However, some people pointed out that the actual total carbon emissions were far greater than taking a plane, and she did not take a boat on the return trip, but asked four crew members to take a special plane to the United States, and then drive the ship back to Europe.
Greta's call for people around the world to join in the low-carbon campaign is a good thing, but it goes too far and becomes a counterproductive show.
In order to practice a low-carbon lifestyle, it is not bad for environmentalists to eat vegetarian food. However, people who eat vegetarian food for the sake of environmental protection cannot object to others eating meat normally.
They have a saying, "Every time the Chinese eat a mouthful of meat, a puff of green smoke rises from the Amazon rainforest", which means that the disappearance of the Brazilian rainforest is caused by your eating too much meat, eggs and milk, and this "butterfly effect" is used to oppose eating meat and drinking milk, advocating their ideal "vegetarianism".
Animals and plants on the earth are actually food and nutrition for each other, so that they can thrive and grow endlessly. Without the food chain, there would be no planetary ecology.
I'm also an environmentalist, I don't buy a car or drive myself, I rely on a bicycle or an electric bike to get around, but I'm never against someone buying a car.
I've always been veryHate extremes, whether it's the extreme left, whether it's the extreme right, whether it's totalitarianism, whether it's extreme environmentalism.
Think about it, in order to protect the forest, if it is recommended that Chinese stop using chopsticks and eat with your hands, because chopsticks come from bamboo and wood, and the use of chopsticks will destroy the ...... of the forestHow ridiculous is that! Is "reverence for nature" such a reverence method?
In order to protect the forest, even if the wildfire is difficult to extinguish, can't the forest be cut down to set up a separation zone?
Extremist environmentalists believe that "artificial is destruction" and "artificial is harm", and according to this logic, it is better to have no human beings on the earth.
e good natural ecological environment, of courseThe fairest public good,YesThe most inclusive people's livelihood and well-beingProtecting the environment is a must. "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", which is true for the whole world. Protecting the ecological environment is, of course, not just about protecting human beings themselves. However, the cause of environmental protection itself must also maintain "clear waters and green mountains" and not engage in radicalism and go to extremes. The result of all kinds of extreme behaviors is often counterproductive, and ultimately it is harmful to environmental protection.
As for the extreme environmentalists, it seems that they have never been afraid of being ridiculed by the Mona Lisa.
We know that the "Mona Lisa's smile" is the most famous and charming smile in the world. It is interesting that back on December 17, 2005, the Louvre unveiled the Mona Lisa"Smile Formula"., think it contains83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful and 2% angry。This result was analyzed by a set of "emotion recognition software", which was jointly developed by the University of Illinois in the United States and the Amsterdam Computer University in the Netherlands.
In the future, human beings must not let the smiling Mona Lisa "cry", but always keep her mysterious and charming smile, and stop increasing her disgust, fear and anger! (The author is a special commentator of the Japan branch of the Hong Kong News Service).