Talking climate change with Mona Lisa

Talking climate change with Mona Lisa
Pieces of cake can be seen on the Mona Lisa. (Image: YouTube)
David Chaplin
In a searing indictment of the failure of Big Art to combat climate change, a 36-year old man disguised as a wheelchair-bound granny this week smothered cake on the most famous gob in Paris, and maybe the world.Flinging roses as Louvre security guards pulled him back from the Mona Lisa, the baking-based activist yelled (translated from the French): “There are people who are destroying the Earth … All artists, think about the Earth. That’s why I did this. Think of the planet.”Naturally, a YouTube phenom, the most-cited v...

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