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From the article: *Large SUVs were particularly affected. According to the police, notes were attached to the cars indicating that they were harmful to the climate. The tyres were not punctured, but merely deflated. The cars were parked in the area between the S-Bahn line and Elbchaussee around Kanzleistraße. *

Personally, I like this protest way more than glueing themselves to the streets, causing traffic jams where cars burn gasoline for hours and ambulances / firefighters / police gets stuck, putting innocent life in danger.

The article is in German. Warning: this link leads to google translate.

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[-] Polar@lemmy.ca 65 points 1 year ago

Being a climate activist is important.

Being malicious to others is garbage behaviour and you're doing nothing but making sure people actively want to hurt the environment out of spite.

These people also give genuine climate activists a bad name. Reminds me of when extremists ruined the word feminist. It's hard to explain to people that you want women to be treated equal, but you don't hate men and want them to die.

[-] Mysteriarch@slrpnk.net 83 points 1 year ago

No form of protest is acceptable to liberals (let alone conservatives). When you peacefully protest, no one pays attention, when you damage private property, everybody screams, when you are disruptive while not damaging said private property, you're still a dick. So who cares, keep on going.

[-] exohuman@programming.dev 37 points 1 year ago

The problem is protests like these hurt working class families. Folks just trying to get by. In my area, you can’t exist without a car. If you want to protest do something that affects the decision makers. People like me have no power.

[-] Mysteriarch@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure that Hamburg isn't such an area, and that SUV's are a totally unecessery folly there. This isn't hurting working class families. (Also, people like you do have power, organize)

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they should've thought of that before being too poor to buy multiple vehicles for each situation.

[-] Bumblefumble@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

You think poor people drive around SUVs in Hamburg because they use them for work?

[-] Lhianna@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

I'm going to assume that you don't know this so I'm gonna let you know: the targeted area is one of the most expensive to live in in Hamburg. And I'm going to repeat myself. Almost nobody in Hamburg needs an SUV.

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