Will keep escalating our actions until govt listens, says activist who threw soup on Van Gogh artwork

London: The 19-year-old social activist Phoebe Plummer who has now become an internet sensation after a video in which she was seen throwing tomato soup at Vincent Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' painting at London's National Gallery has said that she along with others will continue such efforts to stop climate change.

After her stunt, the Just Stop Oil activist faced a lot of backlash on social media for staging protests in London and across the country.

"We are scared, we are angry, as a young person I am terrified I am gonna be denied to get the right to revolt, I am terrified I am going to live in constant fear of climate disaster, I am terrified of when I have access to food or clean water. Millions in the global south authority living in the realities in these phases," Phoebe told Reuters.

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"There've been messages of hate of course and there've been messages of support as well because people realise that this is a proportional act to a criminal government. The government said that this is an act of a criminal. I am not a criminal, I am a scared little kid trying to fight for that future," she added.

In the video that has now gone viral over social media, Phoebe could be seen with another girl throwing canned tomato soup over the famed painting, and soon after, they tried explaining their actions.

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