I’m all for enviromentalism, but these clowns are menace to the society.
Oh no they were inconvenient and annoying, exactly as intended! It’s almost like they were protesting something!
Meanwhile I’m wondering why ecoterrorism isn’t more popular. Not saying I support it (or saying I don’t), I am just surprised that there are less desperate people than I expected.
Apparently a common career for ex-soldiers and special forces is security for oil companies. So they’re clearly surprised too.
Only a matter of time at this point, I suspect.
My biggest concern with ecoterrorism is that a lot of things that should be destroyed, if not done so in a safe way, may end up having worse environmental impacts than if they were left alone.
That is certainly a worthwhile concern.
Edit to be clear: I think it is a worthwhile concern, not a reason to condemn all ecoterrorist action. It is just important that such action be well planned.
I think it pales in risk comparison to stuff like regular war though, and that keeps happening. They blow shit up for maximum impact and effect. whereas I would hope ecoterrorists are at least motivated to attack stuff in a non-environmentally-destructive way. Or at least, pick targets that have greater positive global impact than local negative impacts, but that kinda thing can’t be an easy decision.
i think eco terrorism will be mostly focused sabotage. all eco terrorist need to do is stop production of refined goods, supply line being global, sabotaging some unprotected factory in bangladesh that is the only one that produces a specific component could stop production of some given product globally.
How much actual “eco-terrorism” has there been? Any oil rigs blown up in your area? I don’t even see any protest groups advocating for it.
I’m not saying you’re wrong but we should be significantly more concerned about the ecological destruction that’s actually happening and still increasing right now.
Sometimes I think about taking screenshots of comments like this and then publish them as a book in 20 years.
Fascism pretty much. It’s what any capitalist economy resorts to when it’s about to collapse.
This is only the beginning. Eventually they’ll resort to returning to slavery, or quasi-slavery to keep the economy going and then… collapse.
It’s unironically proof of how deeply climate collapse is affecting humanity. The fact that they’re openly honest about the fact that this is meant to intimidate people into not protesting is all you need to know.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
― John F. Kennedy
Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962
We all know what happens when you’re not even allowed to protest for your grievances
There was a farmers protest here during Covid, protesting environmental laws. They took their tractors onto the highways en-masse, super dangerous. They camped out outside a politician’s house at night to threaten them. Burned things etc etc. Thousands of farmers involved, police didn’t do anything for weeks. No arrests, no consequences.
There were arrests. And as far as I know, extinction rebellion right now are treated the same. I am unaware of any sentencing though.