Climate activists target jets, yachts and golf in a string of global protests against luxury

The Associated Press ^ | August 28, 2023 | BY DAVID BRUNAT

[Oldeconomybuyer]

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Climate activists have spraypainted a superyacht, blocked private jets from taking off and plugged holes in golf courses this summer as part of an intensifying campaign against the emissions-spewing lifestyles of the ultrawealthy.

Climate activism has intensified in the past few years as the planet warms to dangerous levels, igniting more extreme heat, floods, storms and wildfires around the world. Tactics have been getting more radical, with some protesters gluing themselves to roads, disrupting high-profile sporting events like golf and tennis and even splashing famous pieces of artwork with paint or soup.

They’re now turning their attention to the wealthy, after long targeting some of the world’s most profitable companies – oil and gas conglomerates, banks and insurance firms that continue to invest in fossil fuels.

“We do not point the finger at the people but at their lifestyle, the injustice it represents,” said Karen Killeen, an Extinction Rebellion activist who was involved in protests in Ibiza, Spain, a favorite summer spot for the wealthy. She said the group is protesting unnecessary emissions such as superrich individuals going to pick up a pizza by boat. “In a climate emergency, it’s an atrocity,” she said.

Killeen and others from climate activist group Futuro Vegetal — or Vegetable Future — spraypainted a $300 million superyacht belonging to Walmart heir Nancy Walton Laurie. Protesters held up a sign that read, “You consume, others suffer.”

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[exnavy]

Those folks are not going hungry.

[Russ]

As the late, great Bob Grant always said, "It's sick out there and getting sicker."

I wonder how much sicker it can get...

[Ex-Con777]

Bubba, what are YOU saving up for? Famine?

EC

[Sirius Lee]

I didn’t realize that golf was an exclusive pastime of the super wealthy. The garage mechanic and the bartender in my foursome will be very surprised to hear this.

[rlmorel]

I live near an Air Force Base that is marginally still Air Force, but is more of a commercial hub for private jets now.

I love being in the flight path. Always have, seeing them go over a few hundred feet above me, I use the excellent FlightRadar24 application which tracks them and gives information, and as I lay in my hammock, I can view them through binoculars.

They want to expand the civilian facilities at the base, but the Lefties in the surrounding high-income towns put signs out: “Stop Private Aviation Expansion at Hanscom or Anywhere”

I might have less of a problem with people who might not like the sound of jets going over (which is a sound of prosperity and freedom to me) but I have no patience at all for the people who are into the “or Anywhere” at the end of the statement on the lawn signs.

Those people are climate alarmists, and I don’t give them any creedence, credit, or respect.

[V_TWIN]

This is how to handle those idiots

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1696027448977379575?t=LwreCAECKyJGsxiEr-1Hww&s=01

[FLT-bird]

private jets, yachts and giant energy sucking mansions should be the first targets.

Hey, “sacrifices must be made”.....”for the kids” to “save da Erf” right globalists?

OK. Fine. You first. Not only do you advocate it, but you have a larger carbon footprint than anyone. Dramatically reduce your own standard of living first. Think of it like this.....we’re bringing you to virtue! I’m sure we can count on your enthusiastic support!

[LouAvul]

Dunno 'bout the golf part, but one particular millionaire (not, billionaire) attention whoring celebrity flies any one of his private jets all over the world for such things as going to his favorite French restaurant.

Then he lectures us on driving an ICE car to work.

Plus, when he takes any one of his yachts out for a cruise, he always has a backup yacht following.

Yeah, some hypocrisy going on there.

[Flag_This]

”he always has a backup yacht following”

That’s just being prudent. Who doesn’t do that?

[yldstrk]

Commies. They would gladly accept a yacht themselves but don’t want anyone else to have one.

[dfwgator]

As long as they pick on rich liberals.

[SamuraiScot]

Tactics have been getting more radical, with some protesters gluing themselves to roads, disrupting high-profile sporting events like golf and tennis and even splashing famous pieces of artwork with paint or soup. . .

"Splashing famous pieces of artwork" isn't radical.

Arson is.

If this is politics or "social action," I guess the electric chair is, too. (Do they make solar-powered ones?)

[LouAvul]

Commies. They will enslave your children and force them to work, in order to buy themselves yachts.

[Reeses]

This is the ugly face of envy bursting out in public, wrapped in a flimsy wrapper of fake climate virtue. Left unchecked, envy matures into hate, looting, theft, arson, vandalism, riots, murder, war, and voting Demonrat.

It's easy to show that many billionaire investors actually have a net negative carbon footprint. That's because a free market is naturally super energy efficient. Money is just an abstract representation of energy. The biggest profits go to those that, in effect, figure out how to use the least amount of energy, typically by wisely investing in new automation technologies.

[hinckley buzzard]

When I was a college student I couldn’t afford to travel anywhere for a vacation trip so I just played a lot of golf instead.

[Carl Vehse]

Rollin' coal should clear the way of road-blocking terrorists.

If that doesn't work, try one of these -

[Gay State Conservative]

Thankfully John F'ing Kerry was able to fly into Davos on his private 777 to solve the climate crisis...world poverty...war...and the heartbreak of psoriasis.

In two days.

[AppyPappy]

If you mess with the jets and yachts of one of the Elites, you will find yourself in Prison.

[bert]

The way to solve the climate problem is to eliminate climate activists