How long until the inevitable posts of “Oh I respect WHAT they’re protesting but I hate the WAY they’re protesting” shows up on this like it does for all the other anti-fossil political activism?
Oh wait, it won’t, because this kind of protest has minimal impact and is easily ignored by the average person.
And those same people will act like these directs protest were never even considered. “Why don’t they just take it to the oil companies”, they’ll say, ignoring that it is entirely ineffective to do so.
I’m thinking the disobedience around fossil fuel protests is still quite a bit too civil.
“A liberal* is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now.”
* not to be confused with “left wing” as the term is often used in the US
Agreed. We need to take it up a notch. If you’re getting a permit for your protest, it’s not really a protest. It’s a parade with signs.
Protests should be against the law, even peaceful ones. Things like peacefully sitting in places deemed illegal, creating human chains around eco-destructive & heavily polluting machinery, and destroying harmful oil infrastructure.
The elite will argue that destroying their property is violence, when it is really an act of self-defence. We are an intelligent animal species that comes from the Earth. It is part of us. The same way that your skin cells, and the tissues lining your lungs, make up who you are.
We need to start defending ourselves against the cancer that is capitalism. This is a great staying guide: Eco-defense needs to be popularized.
Protesting is symbolic. Seize the means of oil production from the oil chiefs.
Protesting is a threat. The problem is, when you don’t get what you want, you’re supoosed to foklow through on that threat.
The problem is that we’re like Heroin addicts protesting against the bad effects of Heroin, but since we’re addicted we still keep buying from the dealers. Why would the Heroin dealers worry about empty threats? They know they are necessary for economic growth and helping us maintain our lifestyles. It’s kind of ironic that the thing that provides us with a livelihood also destroys nature, which is also and even more vital for our survival.