No. The reason is that the politicians are corrupt as fuck and oil companies have a lot of money to bribe them with. Also, the vast majority of the politicians are fascists who hate protesters and neoliberals who pretend to be their allies but prefer order to justice when it comes down to it.

That's exactly what I said. The corrupt politicians will punish actual protests and go light on ineffectual protests (gluing oneself to items) because the oil companies love ineffectual protests and want to punish effective protests.

Attention that you mostly get via what you so ignorantly call “performative nonsense” while advocating for sacrificing everything to further the cause only very little if at all.

This has NOT led to more attention for environmentalism. It has only led to people speaking negatively about people who glue themselves to items. It has not led people to talk more about the environment. In fact it distracts people from the environment and works in the favor of oil companies.

You can’t change the conversation without inconveniencing someone people

But a protest must do more than merely inconvenience some people... especially when it only inconveniences normal people who might already agree with you but don't have much power. It's clearly just narcissistic attention-grabbing for their own egos.

you can’t change the system without first changing the conversation.

If the conversation has been changed, it's been to distract from environmentalism and put focus on the warped egos of a few fools who glue themselves to things. 100% counterproductive.

You've said nothing of substance. And these protests have no substance.