Lobbies and billionaires fund climate activists’ museum trashings

By Alonso de Mendoza

The story is old: a group of activists that nobody knows is filmed perpetrating a protest action, and a minute later, the images circulate all over the world’s televisions.

It seems spontaneous and clumsy, even trashy, but it is not.

Behind these apparently social actions are powerful lobbies and multimillionaire people injecting hundreds of thousands of euros.

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Their goal is to control the narrative and make people believe that the social impulse is on the side of the ideological causes they finance, from which they obtain enormous benefits in the form of subsidies and transfer of national patrimony into their hands.

The latest example was seen this Sunday with the spectacle staged by two German activists in front of a painting by Claude Monet worth over US$111 million, at which they splashed mashed potatoes in a Potsdam museum as a stunt to bring attention to climate change.

The organization they belong to is called ‘Letzte Generation’ (Last Generation in German) and was created just a year ago.

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