For everyone who disagrees with this form of protest/activism/vandalism campaign: independent of all other factors, it is a successful exploitation of the outr

For everyone who disagrees with this form of protest/activism/vandalism campaign: independent of all other factors, it is a successful exploitation of the outrage media chain in exactly the fashion its architects intended. By that measure at least it is a clear success. I am asserting that whatever else you or I may believe about the premises, we all now have repeatedly in our collective consciousness that "there is some set of young idealists/fools/vandals/you-name-its, who believe that climate change is enough of an existential threat that it warrants this sort of attack on collective cultural heritage." Whether you or I agree with the premise, or more debated, the strategy or its presumptive justifications, we are now in a world in which such actions are now a repeated knock knock knock on the door by the zealous demanding that we attend to climate change. That some of us may respond vindictively or merely become enraged is an acceptable cost—one I assume the architects of this campaign couldn't care less about. I expect this and similar campaigns will only become more active and more common as our various perils and passions continue to overwhelm the premises of civil discourse and proper channels.