It is an act of violence to allow ghg emitting devices to continue to exist. Morally I think it’s pretty cut and dry to destroy these devices.
I think it is a question of strategy.
Insulate Britain have been blocking roads and getting a lot of hate for it. Maybe this is because it affects ‘ordinary people’.
XR’s blockade of a private airport seems to be much more popular.
Popular is not the same as effective though. Infact, more extreme actions like Insulate Britain’s might be pushing the debate around what is acceptable further in our favour.
Yeah, fossil fuel industry literally threatens the existence of the human race as well as all other complex life on this planet. Any argument in favor of it is completely and utterly nullified by the imperative of ensuring continued existence of life on this planet.
But unfortunately radical actions might turn the public opinion against us. I hope it doesn’t, but it’s possible! (EDIT: I thought you said the opposite, but now I think you said the same. Sorry.)
Here’s a discussion on the book.
I think it falls too short to accuse only the people mentioned in the article. I think everybody counts, be it as a voter, be it as a consumer of all that shit.
But I think it is indeed right to disturb the rich a…s which make tons of money with climate “damaging”. Like owners of power plants and of car factories etc.
