I’ll admit, they said more than I thought they would in this film (like actual talk of blowing up pipelines), but I was left as frustrated as I always do by these mainstream films that think they’re ground breaking but mostly just skirt around the issue - capitalism. The word (or even just the fact that it is a systemic issue) wasn’t mentioned once.
Anyone who thinks our main or even only problem is oil dependency hasn’t been paying attention, and anyone acting only against that single symptom of the problem will never achieve long lasting substantial change.
Green energy under capitalism is still going to come from exploitation, oppression, wage theft, and resource hoarding. It’s still going to hold society ransom by charging extortionate amounts for power, and will only enrich the already obscenely wealthy.
So yeah, blowing up pipelines is certainly a more effective step than blocking a road for an hour, and yes, it is time to break the “law” (written by and in defence of those in power. ETA: which at this point also includes simple protests, so really even bare minimum action is now “breaking the law”), but it is those who authorised and those who profit from the pipeline that need to be stopped and held accountable as a very first step, and it’s the system that enabled them to get to where they are in the first place (millions of times richer than most people on the planet, and with the power and position to put things like pipelines wherever the fuck they want at the expense of the people and the planet) that needs to be abolished.
They’re not allowed to openly blame or question capitalism in these programs, sadly. Its under the journalistic “balance” policies the media have here.
And you’re right about green tech being exploited. Big Oil and co are so unkeen on us all having solar on our roof as we’d have a piece of the action. Most homes are also limited to 5kwh of export too here, and at something like 5p per kwh.
Oh yeah, I wasn’t expecting much from ch4 but I guess I always keep a smidge of hope that someone might at least allude to it but no such luck, even on such an “extreme” programme (to most people), so I still get frustrated even though I should know better lol…
I just wish someone would give this country (and others) the shake it needs to wake up to this bullshit… I was going to say I guess it isn’t Packham, but who knows, maybe he’ll radicalise a bit more off camera…
I’ll admit, they said more than I thought they would in this film (like actual talk of blowing up pipelines), but I was left as frustrated as I always do by these mainstream films that think they’re ground breaking but mostly just skirt around the issue - capitalism. The word (or even just the fact that it is a systemic issue) wasn’t mentioned once.
Anyone who thinks our main or even only problem is oil dependency hasn’t been paying attention, and anyone acting only against that single symptom of the problem will never achieve long lasting substantial change.
Green energy under capitalism is still going to come from exploitation, oppression, wage theft, and resource hoarding. It’s still going to hold society ransom by charging extortionate amounts for power, and will only enrich the already obscenely wealthy.
So yeah, blowing up pipelines is certainly a more effective step than blocking a road for an hour, and yes, it is time to break the “law” (written by and in defence of those in power. ETA: which at this point also includes simple protests, so really even bare minimum action is now “breaking the law”), but it is those who authorised and those who profit from the pipeline that need to be stopped and held accountable as a very first step, and it’s the system that enabled them to get to where they are in the first place (millions of times richer than most people on the planet, and with the power and position to put things like pipelines wherever the fuck they want at the expense of the people and the planet) that needs to be abolished.
They’re not allowed to openly blame or question capitalism in these programs, sadly. Its under the journalistic “balance” policies the media have here.
And you’re right about green tech being exploited. Big Oil and co are so unkeen on us all having solar on our roof as we’d have a piece of the action. Most homes are also limited to 5kwh of export too here, and at something like 5p per kwh.
Oh yeah, I wasn’t expecting much from ch4 but I guess I always keep a smidge of hope that someone might at least allude to it but no such luck, even on such an “extreme” programme (to most people), so I still get frustrated even though I should know better lol…
I just wish someone would give this country (and others) the shake it needs to wake up to this bullshit… I was going to say I guess it isn’t Packham, but who knows, maybe he’ll radicalise a bit more off camera…
Speaking of going on at length without ever coming to the point: what’s your alternative to capitalism?