Why Climate Nihilists Target Beloved Art

A video that circulated online Tuesday showed two young men from the soft eco-terror organization Just Stop Oil dump black liquid over Gustav Klimt’s Death and Life at the Leopold Museum in Vienna. JSO has lately risen to notoriety by attacking classic works of art with soup and superglue, blocking traffic, and vandalizing buildings—all in the name of halting climate change. To many, JSO’s tactics amount to an attack on civilization and the institutions that preserve our precious cultural heritage.