Saturday, June 21, 2025

Climate Change Battle Ends In Victory

And all it took was some pink paint. The paint was smeared on a Pablo Picasso art work, L'hetaire, (1901) hanging in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. 

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Marcel, a young fellow agitated by the forest fires further west in Canada, believes that the recent abnormally warm temperatures in the area are an indication of a changing climate that governments aren't doing enough to remedy. Like others with a similar belief, he seems to think that defacing an obscure piece of art will arouse enough righteous indignation to spur action.

This is an example of a new development in western culture, that technology exists or can be found to solve any perceived problem.

Formerly, a very hot day was thought to be simply a weather extreme, to be temporarily endured until it cooled off, as it always has. The high temperature today in Regina, Sask. is predicted to be 62F with rain, actually kind of cool  for the area at this time of the year.

Now a secular religion seems to have been established that worships at the altar of academia/science and their government, media and business allies investigating things that aren't even real problems. The idea that the day-to-day climate of the entire planet can be determined with technological techniques is preposterous. In the many centuries that humans have wandered the earth they've not been able to induce peaceful behavior among their fellows, whom they understand fairly well and can circulate among at will. The birth of things like jet planes, satellites, microwave ovens, video streaming and cosmetic surgery gives urban barbarians the idea that something as complex as the earth's atmosphere can be modified just as the conditions in their bedrooms might be. A splash of pink paint could be all that's needed to set the thing in motion.

On the other hand, how many people are even aware of the existence of L"hetaire? How does defacing a hundred and twenty-four year old painting advance climate science? In fact, how many people will ever be aware of this juvenile act or remember it? Perhaps one of the gigantic artificial intelligence complexes will maintain a file of art defacement activity through the years.  

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