• Carrolade@lemmy.world
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    I’m not sure visibility is really what we need at this point. Is there anyone left on Earth that doesn’t know about it? I think what we need instead is political mobilization and coalition-building to increase our political clout and ultimately win elections and create legislation.

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      Yeah I think awareness where they ruin yachts and private planes is better than destroying common cultural heritage. Wtf

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        They probably know that if they put corn starch on Stonehenge they’ll be in jail for a few days and get community service, but if they put spray paint on a billionaire’s yacht, they’d get shot.

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          Well the top comment was “fuck these people” so if the goal was to build broad public support it is having the opposite effect.

          Alternatively, EVERYONE is cheering for those fucking Orcas, so… Imagine being dumber than a whale.

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          “It will go away, no harm done” is your stance? Well, there is harm done, if not only on the societies feeling of sanity and security. What was the purpose of that action? To seed shock and “ruffle some feathers”, sow disbalance under the coat of “shaking sleeping people up”.

          “No harm done”? Well, then let me waterboard you, hit you, hit your wife and children. The blue specks will go away, no harm done. Your psychological effects? They will go away, seek therapy. You’re still less affected people than the society.

          Of course this was sarcasm. But think about what stance you just took and reflect.

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            What was the purpose of that action? To seed shock and “ruffle some feathers”, sow disbalance under the coat of “shaking sleeping people up”.

            A goal at which it has singularly failed. There’ll be a bit of noise in the papers for a day or two, Stonehenge will be cleaned off with “No harm done” and life will move on with no useful change.

            Their stunts were effective the first time or two, but now are largely ignored or even just cause irritation.

            If they, indeed we, want to change the trajectory of human caused climate damage we need to build bridges at the community level and bring people together to force the hand of the political class. These stunts don’t do that, they just give ammunition to those who seek to prevent positive change.

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        Ah but you see then JustStopOil’s millionaire founder might have his expensive toys damaged then.

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        Maybe it’s that this is a better a metaphor for the destruction of the common cultural heritage of the environment? Not many people can relate to or are inconvenienced by a very expensive private boat sinking.

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      Apparently everyone still doesn’t get how serious it is if they get worked up over paint on Stonehenge more than over the climate catastrophy.

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        Imagine they spray painted your car and then somebody said why are you mad about your car when the environment is fucked.

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          I don’t have a car.
          And took a job that pays less than other offers, cause it’s within bicycle distance from my home, which I chose cause it’s in a bike-friendly area.
          I know the impact is low, but at least I’m not part of the problem. I don’t think I could cut down on my CO2 any more while still living in society.

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            Okay imagine somebody vandalized your bike and then said you shouldn’t be complaining when the environment is fucked.

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              I really don’t understand what point you’re trying to make here.
              They don’t vandalize the property of private citizens.
              Their critics say they should (spray paint private jets instead of rocks).

              This is more like “what if someone vandalized the scenic rock formation I can see from my bedroom window”.
              And if they spray painted a message about fightng the climate catastrophy on it, I’d love it.

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        The assumption that people think problems need to be solved is just that, an assumption. Conservatives believe in tradition, where problems do not get fixed. Fixing problems = bad, because fixes are changes from tradition.

        Most people are somewhere on a scale between conservative and progressive though. But you certainly don’t want to just assume most people want things fixed, it’s unfortunately just not true. It’s just projecting progressive personality traits onto people that have less of them for whatever reason.

        So no, not apparently. It’s much, much worse than simple ignorance.

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      people are aware of it in the sense that it’s a thing that vaguely exists on the horizon

      if society doesn’t want to be melted by climate change, that demonstrably isn’t going to be enough to stop it

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        I’m not so sure. That was probably true before the past decade of record breaking heat waves, intensifying storms, etc.

        Now it’s a variety of other problems, from not giving a fuck and hoping god raptures them before then, to having other priorities like the economy and thinking technical solutions will fix it, to not believing it’s human-caused, etc. It’s political hurdles now, convincing people of the importance of helpful measures, as opposed to simply trying to remind them of the problem.

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      The amount of people justifying calling it global warming is still is kinda shocking to be honest. The ignorance is probably why people are still bringing kt to light.

      Theres people in the comments saying it causes warming and that’s why they call it that……

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        The amount of people justifying calling it global warming is still is kinda shocking to be honest.

        I was told for decades by activists and global leaders it was global warming. For example, An Inconvenient Truth says global warming dozens of times. Are you now telling me those people were wrong?

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          Yes, it’s propaganda lmfao. Wow.

          The term warming is used to detract from the truth, this is shocking how few people understand this simple concept used to create propaganda. And the public perpetuates it.

          It’s been climate change for decades as well, you’re just eating into the politics like most people here.

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        You are right. Sort of, climate crisis would be more appropriate. The word ‘warming’ is not concerning enough, if at all, and doesn’t convey the actual gravity of the current situation very well.