A new trend appears to have taken hold among the eco-activists of the world: gluing themselves to famous works of art, museum walls and even floors to draw attention to the so-called climate crisis.
This activity is known as “locking on,” according to Sky News.
A young man in Germany, a member of environmental activism group Letzte Generation, has apparently taken this form of protest to a new level. Outraged over emissions from the transport sector which he and his fellow activists claim are “persistently high and contribute to the destruction of our civilization,” he and his fellow activists blocked traffic on a busy street in Mainz last Friday.
In #Mainz wurde der Verkehr gestoppt.
Die Emissionen des Verkehrssektors sind anhaltend hoch und tragen zur Vernichtung unserer Zivilisation bei.
Wir machen weiter und rufen alle Mitmenschen dazu auf, sich uns anzuschließen! Gemeinsam können wir die Politik zum Handeln bewegen! pic.twitter.com/Tj8XFp4cDj
— Letzte Generation (@AufstandLastGen) December 9, 2022
The Google translation of this tweet reads: “In #Mainz the traffic was stopped. Emissions from the transport sector are persistently high and contribute to the destruction of our civilization. We continue and call on all fellow human beings to join us! Together we can move politics to action!”
How they believe this will effect meaningful change, I haven’t a clue.
Anyway, using a mixture of sand and superglue, this genius glued his hand to the pavement.
The Daily Mail reported that city police first tried to dissolve the glue. When those attempts proved futile, power tools were brought out. Using a concrete saw, the police removed a small section of the pavement around his hand.
This brought his protest to an anti-climactic end. But, as you can see in the video below, he is now walking around with a chunk of asphalt attached to his right hand.
At the end of the clip, he awkwardly pulls a handkerchief from his pocket to blow his nose, no doubt realizing this may not have been a good idea.
In #Germany, an eco-activist glued himself to the asphalt, but he didn’t think about the consequences. pic.twitter.com/hP1juHRmD8
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) December 11, 2022
Unbelievably, this man did not appear to be arrested. And following this incident, Letzte Generation defiantly posted a photograph of him with the concrete still attached to his hand.
His protest had disrupted traffic at a busy city intersection, inconveniencing countless citizens, and required the time of police officers and other city personnel to remove his hand from the concrete. Yet, he was allowed to walk away from the scene with no legal consequences.
This is only the latest eco-activism event of many that have swept across Europe over the past year. In October, a member of British environmental activist group Just Stop Oil, covered the exterior of the Aston Martin showroom in Central London with orange spray paint to end new fossil fuel licensing.
Just days before that incident, two female members of the group threw tomato soup on Van Gogh’s famous “Sunflowers” painting at London’s National Gallery. Afterwards, they “locked on” to the wall beneath the painting.
🌻🥫 BREAKING: SOUP THROWN ON VAN GOGH’S ‘SUNFLOWERS’ 🥫🌻
🖼 Is art worth more than life? More than food? More than justice?
🛢 The cost of living crisis and climate crisis is driven by oil and gas.#FreeLouis #FreeJosh #CivilResistance #A22Network #JustStopOil #NoNewOil pic.twitter.com/18T2zSP2ws
— Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) October 14, 2022
CBS News reported that after they’d been detached from the wall, they were arrested by the Metropolitan Police.
Sadly, however, few of these activists are forced to face the consequences of their actions. If this doesn’t change, we can expect to see more of this behavior.
A previous version of this article appeared in The Western Journal.
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Hmmm…. gluing themselves to art and to roadways. I am not a Supreme Court Justice, nor am I a biologist or a chemist, but I think I can recognize a petroleum-derived substance when I see one. Interesting choice of substance by those who would ban oil.
How much fun would it be to hit this clown on the head, repeatedly, with a stick?
A few of these morons from the same group, glued themselves to a runway at the Munich airport. They should have left them there to dodge aircraft.
Why would you be so cruel as to wish that kind of indigestion on aircraft engines?
All of them, the evil cousins of Greta Thunberg.
I hope that idiot wears his asphalt with flair. I kinda wish they would have just cut his hand off and left it glued to the road, as a reminder that that’s what you get when playing stupid games.
…..dude is gonna get callouses on his left hand …can’t change hands when he’s rubbing one out
Just start forcibly pulling them off what the have glued themselves to. They can then enjoy waiting for their skin to grow back. That way they can prove that they have some skin in the game.
HOW DARE YOU!