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yeah, but…
I can’t even…
Might be a hot take, but I for one think we should be far more extremist in our climate fight against corporations.
Just yesterday I was thinking about how I can’t open my window for the weekend because of the smoke in the air. This thought process is fucking insane when you step back and think about it, but yet it’s becoming our daily lives. No window day today -> no outside day -> oh we only go out at night now etc. Progression is slow so we get used to the hindrances we have to live with.
My main point: if you’re going to go after ‘climate extremists’, make sure it’s the ones who don’t care about your children’s future, not the ones trying to do something about it.
Agreed. It’s an important thing to remember.
Yes but think of the profits
I get it, but … all anyone accomplishes by barricading a road to protest oil is pissing off people trying to get to work so they have a roof over their heads and don’t starve. They’re not going to think, Oh! Well! I’d better change my ways! I’ll just spend this tens of thousands of dollars I don’t have lying around on an EV (which won’t solve climate change anyway), take the fuck-all existent public transit (in North America), or walk 20 miles to work every day!
They’re as much victims to the system you are.
people trying to get to work
yes! The point of protest is to inconvenience the owning class, which this achieves, well recognised!
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In all seriousness, I can’t see how that’s realistic in anything but ideal climate if you need to maintain a professional appearance. Either you get to work as a blob of sweat and stank because it’s hot outside, or you get to work as a blob of sweat and stank because it’s cold as fucking balls and you need to have twenty layers of clothes so the outside doesn’t literally kill you in 30 seconds.
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Could also fix our infrastructure and invest in public transport. I’m not entirely fuck cars, but I’d definitely like to see a role reversal between public transport and personal vehicles in the US. Real investment in trains in America would be a game changer.
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Fair enough, I guess that would work.
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For a lot of people in the US, the only way to work is by freeway/highway. Biking that is not an option.
In the same places, public transit is often terrible/nonexistent/actually dangerous as well.
It’s really an infrastructure problem, but getting people to invest more in public infrastructure is extremely difficult, and that’s ignoring the extremely inefficient spending at the government level.
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Having visited the Netherlands, I have to say it’s an incredibly beautiful country with amazing public transportation and some of the friendliest people I’ve met. I wish we could be more like that. Instead, I often find myself avoid public transportation because of how much slower it is (easily an extra hour of transportation), the fact it just doesn’t usually go to where I need to go, and the risks associated with it (stabbings, stealing, etc) :(
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