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[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Personally. Im all in favor of any financal disruption to businesses, do walk outs, sit-ins, strike, most any other form of protest. I feel like the line is crossed when public infrastructure or essential services are unnessesarly impacted. It shows that the participants lack the planning capacity to select their venue appropratly.

Going to go out on a limb and hope the mods dont whack this post (Hi .LW mods), but Luigi has the right idea (minus the murder part... Bit too late to workshop that though). His protest was targeted at the individauls responsible for supporting the problem in the first place. A vast majority of the decision makers in the world are not elected, they can not be voted out of their money and influence.

This is why I aplaud most protesters, but climate groups almost always seem to miss the mark. Bringing attention to a topic does not change policy, throwing tomato sauce at a painting or being an intentional cockwomble in traffic only inconviences those who have no power to effect change.

Traffic disruptions do not work on people who can afford private jets. Be better protester, and have standards.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

This is why I aplaud most protesters, but climate groups almost always seem to miss the mark. Bringing attention to a topic does not change policy, throwing tomato sauce at a painting or being an intentional cockwomble in traffic only inconviences those who have no power to effect change.

But climate change groups are "target[ing] the individuals responsible for supporting the problem in the first place" when they block drivers.

[-] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

People are largely too poor to live close to work and anyone who works the kind of inconsistent shifts lots of peoplework can't carpool. They also aren't the ones fighting work from home

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

I don't see how carpooling is relevant here at all. Even if you carpool or take a bus, you still need the road and wouldn't be able to commute if that road gets blocked off.

[-] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

The person said the people on the road were responsible for the climate issue when individual decisions other than whom to vote for often has limited impact. If we want to effect meaningful change we need collective action on the part of our nation and government not just individuals.

Putting the blame on individuals knowing that the sum total effect of best case individual action means jack shit is a way to defect attention away from the decision makers whose actions actually have some hope of changing our trajectory.

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