Climate Activists Target Art, Show Their Own Fanaticism

Climate activists have found a new target — the greatest masterpieces in the history of Western art.

Heretofore, no one thought that Claude Monet’s Haystacks — a sublime series studying the changes in light and color on haystacks in a field — or Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers — a painting that is instantly recognizable and that forever associated these flowers with the troubled artist — had harmed anyone, let alone had anything to do with the alleged climate emergency.

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Climate activists have found a new target — the greatest masterpieces in the history of Western art.

Heretofore, no one thought that Claude Monet’s Haystacks — a sublime series studying the changes in light and color on haystacks in a field — or Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers — a painting that is instantly recognizable and that forever associated these flowers with the troubled artist — had harmed anyone, let alone had anything to do with the alleged climate emergency.