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Five ( Five@slrpnk.net )  to EnvironmentEnglish · 2 years ago

Climate activists arrested after spray painting UK’s Stonehenge monument

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Climate activists arrested after spray painting UK’s Stonehenge monument

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Five ( Five@slrpnk.net )  to EnvironmentEnglish · 2 years ago
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UK police say they arrested two people ‘on suspicion of damaging’ the prehistoric UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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    Well. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Now your org gets to pay for cleanup if they don’t just tell the 2 that got arrested “Good luck, you’re on your own now”

    What’s the correlation with Stonehenge and the fossil fuel industry? No one visiting is going to see the vandalism and think “Maybe I should lessen my personal dependence on fossil fuels.”, they’re just going to hear how it was this asshole group that happens to be named ‘Just Stop Oil’. I highly doubt that’s changing anyone’s mind (for the better).

    Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for activism. Hell, I’m all for destructive activism; Block access to oil wells, sabotage infrastructure (preferably in a way that doesn’t cause more environmental damage in the process), burn down some private jets. But don’t go around being an asshole unrelated to your cause just to get your name out. That’s not helping anything.

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        “Picking” the lesser of two evils implies there is some kind of exclusive relationship between climate change and vandalism. As if this action had some kind of effect that counters climate change.

        But it doesn’t.

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            Then what are the two evils you’re referring to, and which action are you referring to with picking the lesser evil?

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                Right, that’s what I thought you were referring to, and responded to. Ruining stonehenge versus the climate. Or vandalism generally versus the climate.

                We’re not picking between these things. They’re independent variables.

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        Are they protesting the specific location of the factory or the concept of factories?

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