Two people arrested, say police, while Rishi Sunak’s comments on protest prompt response from Labour donor

If you ever wanted to read about fake druids vs. environmental activists, now’s your chance.

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Those stones will be suuuper useful to us after we died because our global ecosystem collapsed.

    Maybe we should set up our own stones for explaining to future generations why we didnt do anything about climate change until it was too late.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I’m not sure how this helps though. These people can say to future generations, “well, we didn’t get people to stop using fossil fuels, but we did damage a 5000-year-old monument that was made long before anyone had the idea of burning fossil fuels to make people aware of a problem they were already aware of but powerless to do anything about.”

      This isn’t going to stop oil companies from drilling for oil.

      It reminds me of a friend of mine I used to follow elsewhere on social media. Every day, she would post pictures of ‘death row dogs’ in nearby shelters that were going to be euthanized. There was fuck all I could do about it. I already have two dogs, from shelters. I don’t have room for more and I couldn’t afford more. So all it did was make me feel like shit. Then she started posting photos with “too late” messages and I stopped following her.

      How does that help?

        • Blackbeard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          But we’re not talking about it. We’re not talking about political action, or technological solutions, or mitigation programs, or investments in adaptation, or natural resource management, or harm reduction, or food distribution, or drought management.

          No, we’re talking about a bunch of first world children who decided to paint a bunch of ten-thousand year old rocks for attention.

      • thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Many of the recent protests about climate change have been less direct and more about stirring up controversy to force the public to actually think about their decisions.

        My hat off to them as so far this style of protest has been working and has resulted in many of us pushing for better climate control.

        You’re right this isn’t going to stop companies, but even if you disagreed with them it puts climate change in your conscious mind. Even if that simply means you’ll try to make slightly more climate friendly decisions moving forwards, that’s a win.

        Personally I don’t know if I agree with the technique, but I do feel like it has been working in terms of making people discuss this topic more.