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Instead join a group that doesn't exist just to make people who care about the environment look bad - just because they claim to care about the same things as you doesn't mean they're the good guys.
For what it's worth, I completely agree that threatening historical artifacts to get people's attention is counterproductive. I looked over Just Stop Oil and I don't agree with all of their tactics. Promoting some other type of action sounds better, to me.
But on the other hand at least they are doing something. If 10% of the world cared as much as they do, we'd have a much better chance of taking effective action against the apocalypse that's coming. As it stands right now, billions will die. We probably can't avoid that anymore, but we can reduce the number of billions, and the quality of the wreckage we'll get to inhabit in 100 years.
You can:
To me, I think doing one of the first three makes more sense than the fourth one. Again, I won't say you're wrong, but less involvement in doing anything is not the solution to it.