Just Stop Oil activists recently made global headlines when they threw soup over a famous Van Gogh painting. The Heinz hurling event sparked a bizarre debate on whether soup-throwing in art galleries is wrong or not, but when it comes to direct action, such debates are redundant. Ultimately, Just Stop Oil took an action that’s impossible to ignore in order to draw public attention to an issue that’s also impossible to ignore: climate breakdown. And it worked. Direct action like this is designed to be disruptive, and it’s something that people do when they’re desperate to be heard. Whether it’s glueing yourself to the road to demand the government insulate people’s homes, throwing paint over an arms factory, or setting off 1,000 rape alarms outside a police station to pr...