• Etterra@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I’m constantly surprised that the endless unmonitored miles of oil pipelines don’t ever bombed.

      • WraithGear@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        “In an opinion article in The New York Times, columnist Ezra Klein wrote that “[a] truer title would be ‘Why to Blow Up a Pipeline’”, characterizing Malm’s answer as “[because] nothing else has worked”. Stating that Malm was “less convincing” about “whether blowing up pipelines would work here, and now”, Klein argued that there would likely be political consequences to sabotage, including imprisonment of climate activists as well as political repression.[13]”

        Whelp, Erza Klein can eat the whole of my ass.

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      4 months ago

      That actively works against the cause because it would do so much harm to the local ecosystems

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        4 months ago

        That is a short term problem for trying to fight a long term catastrophe.

        I would prefer to not cause a mess, and further harm natural spaces, but as you can see. Not only are passive demonstrations not effective, they have severe jail time. So at this point, i see it as the most logical step

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          4 months ago

          And as these sentences get handed down and there are more political prisoners and martyrs, more people will start to think that way.

          Current eco activists tend to be very conscientious and considered about what they’re doing. As it gets more popular, you’ll get people joining who are considerably less measured in their actions, and the likelihood of drastic actions increases.

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        4 months ago

        Well a lot of them run through more or less suburban areas. So doing it there would have lower environmental impact while greatly raising awareness of how many pipelines run through populated places.