Wait... could Just Stop Oil have done some 5D chess move here? Force Sunak to publicly claim he cares about Stonehenge just before the UNESCO report comes out?
We did it here. I spent years protesting and camping on-and-off when they tried to build the M3 motorway through the Hill of Tara, an ancient site with similarities to Stonehenge.
If you want outrage, then reacting to Stonehenge being in danger from the construction of a road seems much more appropriate than from it getting dusted with colored corn starch.
While U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak criticized Just Stop Oil protestors after they sprayed Stonehenge with rain-dissolvable orange cornflour powder the day before the Summer Solstice earlier this month his government is pressing on with a road tunnel that could alter the monuments ritual landscape for ever.
Hmmmmmmmmm.
Where are all the outraged little industry apologists, that were so mad about the lil bit of easily removable paint, from the post last week.
Protesting what exactly? Protesting for the sake of protesting is just meaningless. I still fail to see the morality here. What exactly is moral about vandalizing these cars?
Also this notion that protests are only effective if they're disruptive is a myth. If that was the case then the George Floyd Riots would've led somewhere or the pro Palestinian encampments would've led somewhere or all those climate protesters damaging historical monuments and art would've led somewhere or all those animal rights activists blocking streets would've led somewhere... but they haven't. All they've done is lead people to resent them.
Protesting monster trucks becoming the default go-to vehicle to go run an errand or drive to work. You don't need a "child-destroyer-3000: now Electric!" taking 3 lanes of width, weighing 20 tonnes, and occupying 4 parking spots, to go to your bakery or pick up the kids from school.
What exactly is moral about vandalizing these cars?
If certain vehicles end up costing more to manufacture/protect/repaint than the revenue upon sale, the company will stop manufacturing them. Same idea as deflating SUV wheels which are parked on the street: make lives for SUV drivers inconvenient so people won't want an SUV.
Also this notion that protests are only effective if they're disruptive is a myth. If that was the case then the George Floyd Riots would've led somewhere or the pro Palestinian encampments would've led somewhere or all those climate protesters damaging historical monuments and art would've led somewhere or all those animal rights activists blocking streets would've led somewhere... but they haven't. All they've done is lead people to resent them.
"What did the resistance to Nazi occupation by the Polish people lead to? It didn't work, genocide happened anyway, and all they did is making Nazis resent them".
I'm sure you're aware that people engage in challenges they don't know for certain they can achieve, right?
Where is the morality in a 56 bil pay package when you have done more damage to the reputation of said company while fucking over the workers of said company.
Without justifying this really dumb act, because there’s no justifying it, [...]
How about we just don’t vandalize private property. That’s a good standpoint to build on.
This is why the planet is fucked, you all whine that climate change is scary but then you cheer on people attacking electric cars just because Twitter man bad. You're all desperate for tesla to fail because Elon upset you, someone doing something petty that'll have zero effect on Elon but will negatively affect a regular person fills you with joy because it's a way of hitting back at the bad man. Totally childish and pathetic.
Spend that energy learning about and praising positive things, don't win by tearing your opponent down win by building yourself up.
Ok... I'll take the bait, can you please share links that show how the Cybertruck is actually good the planet? I didn't actually read technical review about it. I mostly see silly (and sometimes fun) memes. I also recently read that EV in generals don't have the same impact as electrical bikes, e.g https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2024/apr/11/evs-are-booming-but-electric-bikes-are-really-cutting-emissions , but maybe I'm misinformed and this vehicle by Tesla, despite its size, it's actually helping. Can you please share a link to such review and/or studies with e.g Life cycle assessment (LCA) / ISO 14040?
PS: to clarify I don't mean articles about how it's "changing mind", I mean numerical estimations then comparison between one mean of transport, e.g non EV vs EV, or this EV vs other or this EV vs random electric bike.
No matter what cars will be shit for the environment in some way, things like pubic transport, bike infrastructure and more walkable cities are things that actually help
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