What’s the Best Way to Demonstrate for Climate Action?
October 17, 2022
Agree with the sentiment, we’ll see if this gets media traction, which I assume is the goal. At least no spilled or wasted food here.
But really, Greenpeace has been doing this for many years and it hasn’t accomplished much.
IMHO, What we really need is for folks to show up in their community meetings, especially in rural areas, in support of clean energy, talk to and find a way to cooperate with a broad range of people they may not agree with on everything, and help deploy, deploy, deploy the clean resources we already have.
UPDATE: Can I assume this is the same guy?
October 17, 2022 at 2:30 pm
suggest you google “Greenpeace accomplishments”
October 17, 2022 at 2:53 pm
On the Update, yes. Just Stop Oil is planning a full month blitz for October.
October 17, 2022 at 9:08 pm
Article about this protest:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-63281841
October 26, 2022 at 10:34 am
“I’m sitting in a traffic jam instead of being at work running the business.”
I’m betting that person drives an ICE vehicle, too.
October 18, 2022 at 3:20 pm
‘Buckle up’: US backers of Just Stop Oil vow more Van Gogh-style protests
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/18/just-stop-oil-van-gogh-national-portrait-gallery-climate-emergency-fund
“In terms of press coverage, the Van Gogh protest may be the most successful action I’ve seen in the last eight years in climate movement. It was a breakthrough, it succeeded in breaking through this really terrible media landscape where you have this mass delusion of normalcy. It’s time to wake up.”
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“I just want everyone to think about climate,” she said. “Even those who are mad at the climate activists. It’s better to be mad than to just keep ignoring them.”