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I think this kind of activism is much more effective than the Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion people gluing themselves to roads and preventing ambulances from getting to hospitals.
Support for the climate movement has halved in two years in Germany because of these idiots.
People who changed their minds on the topic of needed actions against climate change because of this, never were real allies to begin with! These people would have jumped ship anyway the first time they would be requried to do the slightest change to their way of life. The impact climate change has on all of our lifes already and will continue to do so even more, hasn't changed on bit simply because LG pissed off some people. So people who changed their minds certainly don't understand how deep in shit we're already in. These either need to be truely convinced or dragged with us while they kick and scream through laws!
It's very easy to say your in favor of doing "something" when nothing is being done and nothing is required of you. Fuck these people and it's good that we see how far we still are from actually getting the population on our side.
I disagree. I’m an ally, I’ve mainly gone vegetarian, cycle a bike most days and have solar panels on my roof. But when Extinction Rebellion glues themselves to my train , or splashes paint across a painting in an art gallery that pisses me off.
If a pollster had asked me the day after ‘do you support the movement’, I wouldn’t have been giving a clear ‘absolutely yes’ answer.
When exactly has XR splashed paint across art works? Across meaningless glass in front of art works - yes. But when was it art works? (Also: was that XR? I can't remember exactly, but I very much doubt it.)
Who on Earth glued themselves to trains? That's even more absurd of you to say.