• kibiz0r@midwest.social
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      4 months ago

      It is strange and striking that climate change activists have not committed any acts of terrorism. After all, terrorism is for the individual by far the modern world’s most effective form of political action, and climate change is an issue about which people feel just as strongly as about, say, animal rights. This is especially noticeable when you bear in mind the ease of things like blowing up petrol stations, or vandalising SUVs. In cities, SUVs are loathed by everyone except the people who drive them; and in a city the size of London, a few dozen people could in a short space of time make the ownership of these cars effectively impossible, just by running keys down the side of them, at a cost to the owner of several thousand pounds a time. Say fifty people vandalising four cars each every night for a month: six thousand trashed SUVs in a month and the Chelsea tractors would soon be disappearing from our streets. So why don’t these things happen?

      • Alpha71@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Because the law drops the hammer on them BIG time.

        Hell, activists use to spike old wood trees marked for clear cutting back in the day. This would cause the saw blades foresters would use to explode in their face, in fact George Alexander, a millworker, was severely injured when a saw blade shattered after contact with a tree spike and cut his jaw in half.

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          4 months ago

          George Alexander would then form a band, drop two hits, then write for other artists away from the limelight.

          Oh wait, that’s Gregg.

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        4 months ago

        I think it says more about the personalities on each side. ICE loving climate deniers are aggressive by nature.