There's overwhelming US support for action on our climate. Why that hasn't mattered. - eviltoast
  • neanderthal@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s really pretty simple. We have made it socially acceptable to do nothing and awkward to talk about it. Deniers need to be given the same response as someone making a racist comment or joke: “Not cool! The effects IPCC predicted as worst case, years ago, is happening! This almost getting to the point of flat earth!”

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      1 year ago

      The most proactive action I’ve seen is people glueing themselves to roads. Didn’t I hear in the old days they’d blow up oil pipelines, or was that just in the movies?

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        1 year ago

        Maybe we should all just start riding bikes and wearing MAGA shirts and other GOP dog whistles to dissuade coal rollers and such? Eventually the MAGA crowd will see their own riding bikes and think it was their idea. Cities will then be forced to build bike infrastructure.

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        1 year ago

        there was a movie called “how to blow up a pipeline” in which the protagonists did exactly that, and groups like the ELF existed. I agree that these weird get yourself arrested plans are dumb