“The authorities are missing in action,” said one campaigner. “If they won’t step in to stop illegal, planet-wrecking coal mining, we will.”

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      we’re 50 years past the Exxon paper where they admitted they knew about climate change and were willing to do nothing – all of these environmental activist groups (especially the ones being led by millennials and zoomers – Extinction Rebellion, Ta Tillbaka Framtiden, Climate Defiance, et al) are solidly in the territory of “Self defense is not violence.” …

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          Yes and no, they aren’t saying that we should end all electricity use. Renewable power has been cheaper than coal for years and the adoption rate by most grids is still very low. For companies that spend 10x as much to say they are going green rather than implementing those changes what other options does a consumer have?

          There is no ethical consumption under capitalism and no collective bargaining with the manufacturer under late-stage capitalism.

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            Renewable power has been cheaper than coal for years and the adoption rate by most grids is still very low.

            That’s because this stat is bullshit and highly context dependent.

            When you have renewable power at the same time as demand and demand, renewables are cheaper than coal.

            When winter hits, the sun sets, and your baseline power is done, renewables aren’t cheap. They simply don’t function. Energy storage, meanwhile, is crazy expensive.

            Utilities use the cheapest power they can. They aren’t just rejecting green energy for fun.

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      Honestly from what I am seeing, they seem to be about the most effective climate group in the world right now. They seem to hit the right targets where it hurts.

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    Do I understand this correctly, if you say that you do not agree that what you do is illegal, you can just continue doing it in the UK and the police is not going to do anything about that? Seems like XR just found their legal loophole.

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      That only really works for the wealthy and the powerful. It doesn’t work for the rest of us.