Susan O’Keeffe: ‘Smyth’s role is to encourage action on climate crisis, not turn it into a social media bandwagon’

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The sad part about recent events is that climate change desperately needs protestors who are savvy and smart to help drive a vast mindset change, writes susanokeeffe

According to one of our Oireachtas members, ‘throwing beans at paintings’ is effective.

Green Party TD Ossian Smyth, the Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, told a group of teenagers this week, that ‘taking action’ is a good thing. His precise words were that it’s a “really effective thing to do. It draws attention.”

 

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susanokeeffe The climate protestors who used art to highlight their cause are both savvy and smart imo. Climate action does need a multi pronged approach and disruptive protest has a role to play in turning the medias attention to climate issues.

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