Oh, so it's even worse. They aren't trying to get any practical effect, it's just pointless vandalism that won't achieve anything. Cool.

Please explain to me how this keeps climate change in the public consciousness. We haven't spoken about anything even vaguely climate change-related in this entire thread. None of the discourse around it is about climate change. It's a distraction, at best. It's the sand the "people and the media" bury their heads in.

I hate the defeatism, too. If it doesn't do anything, then why even bother? Let the people who are... you know, actually working on it do their thing and get out of the way with the cornstarch and the stunts.

I also don't get the necessity to be defensive about it. I get to very much advocate for climate change action (and take action myself, by voting accordingly if nothing else) and still acknowledge this was a dumb thing, which is... honestly pretty obvious. Speaking of bad optics that make you lose the culture wars, denying how dumb this was just makes you seem delusional. After all, if climate activists are so obviously wrong about the obviously wrong thing why would they be right about the other thing? There is literally no upside to this.