‘She Can Afford To Repaint It’: No One Is Weeping for the Walmart Heiress After Climate Protesters Vandal Her $300 Million Superyacht
On Sunday, two eco-protesters from Spanish climate activist group Futuro Vegetal did what the proletariat boat-destroying orca whales only wished they had the opposable thumbs to do — spray-paint the hell out of a Walmart heiress’ $300 million superyacht docked on the coast of Ibiza.
On Sunday, two eco-protesters from Spanish climate activist group Futuro Vegetal did what the proletariat boat-destroying orca whales only wished they had the opposable thumbs to do — spray-paint the hell out of a Walmart heiress’ $300 million superyacht docked on the coast of Ibiza.
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— FuturoVegetal (@FuturoVegetal) July 16, 2023
Rociamos pintura utilizando extintores contra el mega-yate de 300 millones de euros de Nancy Walton, heredera de #Walmart y una de las mujeres más ricas del mundo con una fortuna de 8.700 millones de dólares pic.twitter.com/DVWsVfJhxf
After coating the back of the vessel, which belongs to Nancy Walton Laurie of the billionaire Walton family, with red and black paint, the duo posed for a series of photos flaunting both their excellent tagging chops and a poster reading, “You Consume Others Suffer.”
Activists spray paint on the Yacht of Nancy Walton Laurie, or the “Heiress of Walmart”
— Humans in the Wild (@humansinthewild) July 17, 2023
The Yacht, name “Kaos” is a 341 foot long mega-yacht that costs around $300 million USD. pic.twitter.com/6HR3QfPMgP
Though the protesters were quickly arrested, per the Spanish Civil Guard, Futuro Vegetal stood by their demonstration on social media, a campaign they described as a necessary act of “civil disobedience” amid the ongoing climate crisis.
“The only reason we continue to maintain an economic system that leads us to eco-social collapse is to sustain the privileges of this small privileged class,” Futuro Vegetal explained in a post shared to Twitter, according to the platform’s English translation. “The mega-rich live off the suffering of others.”
El único motivo por el que seguimos manteniendo un sistema económico que nos lleva al colapso eco-social es para sostener los privilegios de esta pequeña clase privilegiada. Los megarricos viven del sufrimiento ajeno.
— FuturoVegetal (@FuturoVegetal) July 16, 2023
Despite garnering a series of highly unrelatable boo-hoos from yacht enthusiasts — “They just angry they are broke,” commented Instagram user @chanz.the.rapper on luxury creator @dadocesaro’s video of the incident — the vast majority (or dare we say, other 99 percent) were filled with schadenfreude at Walton’s newly-painted vessel.
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“I’m supposed to feel something??” asked Twitter user @DawnLauri.
“Walmart heiress’s super yacht vandalises climate belonging to everyone else,” argued @benwhlong.
Besides, as @neilh2o pointed out, the pain for Walton Laurie is only temporary anyway: “If the yacht is worth $300 million she can afford to repaint it.”
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