Relevant as always.
Be a lot cooler if they blew it up
At the very least throw a wrench into the engine
They’re strategy is to make life ‘annoying’ enough that rich people will react to everyone begging them to stop destroying the planet. I doubt they’re actually feds, I think they’re just run and funded by bougie morons
At least this is more effective than standing in front of a building holding up a sign.
Escalation is good. Hopefully this encourages some people to be a little more bold, take a little more risk...
They’re strategy is to make life ‘annoying’ enough that rich people will react
Stopping highways and stuff makes life annoying for not rich people, and they predictably react by saying "fuck the climate and fuck these kids" or something like that
Are they really not the least bit self aware? I've not seen a single person in my environment react positively to these kinds of stunts.
I think that's the point, they are trying to make life increasingly annoying for everyone, especially westerners, until climate change is adequately addressed. I can backseat activist all day and nitpick what they're doing, but honestly it's more direct action than I've ever done for the climate
I think that's the point, they are trying to make life increasingly annoying for everyone, especially westerners, until climate change is adequately addressed.
I don't think it works like that tho. Like do they honestly expect the average person is going to be "yeah these activists sure are inconveniencing me with blocking traffic and throwing paint and stuff, let us change our entire political and economic order so they shut up about it already"? I mean I'd very much like to be wrong here if that's what it really takes I'm gonna be personally throwing paint at all kinds of shit but I just don't see it.
I can backseat activist all day and nitpick what they're doing, but honestly it's more direct action than I've ever done for the climate
I can somewhat agree with that, I don't think what they're doing is inherently wrong or harmful or whatever, I just don't think it's really having any impact.
Is it better for people ignoring environmental issues to be comfortable or mildly annoyed, assuming they aren't taking action either way?
The problem is working class activists are taking the hit for the wealthy people funding these organisations. And they are taking risks and devoting their time to a strategy which we know will not work, and which doesn’t just disdain popular support but is specifically antagonistic to it. I don’t doubt the activists hearts are in the right place, but I also don’t think they will achieve anything positive. It’s not an ethics thing, it’s a question of what’s actually practical.
If I remember right one of their primary sponsors is the heiress to the Getty oil family.
You have painted my private jet orange, thus shaming me. I now have no choice but to abandon my polluting ways.
A cordless drill and a long drill bit would have been quicker and more effective.
You already did the hard part, just do the cool bit.
people talk about these kinds of actions like its proof that these are "psyops" but i think the more obvious explanation is that these activists feel that they're fighting a crisis of the system, rather than the system itself, so they'll violate certain legal strictures, but not the moral ones that they've been deeply inculcated with since birth. "people over property" is their program, but of course we can't do away with property altogether.
At least they targeted something that actually contributes to climate change for once.
Just Stop Oil released a press statement on their website.
One of the protestors said:
"We’re living in two worlds: one where billionaires live in luxury, able to fly in private jets away from the other, where unlivable conditions are being imposed on countless millions. Meanwhile, this system that is allowing extreme wealth to be accrued by a few, to the detriment of everyone else, is destroying the conditions necessary to support human life in a rapidly accelerating never-ending ‘cruel summer’. Billionaires are not untouchable, climate breakdown will affect every single one of us."
The other protestor said:
“Over the years, I’ve had to realise that even working in sustainability provides me with essentially no ability to make the necessary changes to prevent the complete collapse of our natural systems. I have to take desperate measures to make my voice heard. In 2024 we all have to be considering what we can do each day to change the course our society is on. We need an emergency treaty to stop the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030.”
It’s good luck to throw loose change into the engines.
feds finally did something at least a little cool 
Death to America
That will surely teach them
orange paint
it's a step up from throwing paint at old paintings.
no more half measures walter
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