The climate activist blocked a port handling fossil fuels with a group of young activists in June.
Let’s not forget the real villains: “Cutting oil and gas production would be “dangerous and irresponsible”, the head of energy company Shell told BBC News.”
Won’t someone think of the poor corporations!?
Good I hate this attitude some have that protests should never even mildly inconvenience others. It completely ignores any basic history of protest movements and the fact some point to MLK JR shows they don’t know anything about him and how “disruptive” some of his sit ins and marches were. Go Greta we need to take extreme action about climate change immediately its an extreme emergency.
Protests actually weren’t MLKs strongest tool, and he himself admits it. Getting arrested for doing something and then challenging it in court now that you have standing was his biggest tool. Most of the protests were just a means to get arrested. It’s revisionist history that says it was the protests specifically that worked because it’s better to emphasize the tactics that didnt work than to point out what actually did and risk a reoccurrence.
Can you provide any sources to back up what you’re saying?
It sounds nice, but when you mention ‘revisionist history’ without providing sources I’m immediately skeptical.
I’m not saying protests didn’t have a use. Just that their main use was overshadowed. Peacefully sitting in somewhere didn’t do much. It was the legal things it lead to that did something. Without the legal precedents set, it would have just been brushed back under the rug eventually. You need to incite change, not just annoyance.
right, if you’re not disturbing anyone you’re not doing anything useful. That said, bothering the right people, closing traffic at 7am while everyone is going to work won’t help your cause (unless you’re protesting against working).
Yep. Protesting is just marketing. It is very effective when done well and backfires when done poorly. If you study the market and target audience properly, they’ll listen and join the cause.
I think it’s worth addressing that “the right people” are very often going out of their way to be absolutely unreachable by the average joe and are completely impossible for mere poors to meaningfully bother directly. Protest will always inconvenience average people first, because the little people are always affected more than the rich in any action, especially any that would manage to rattle the powerful in any way.
The powerful have managed to structure society and laws alike to make effectively all actions that would target them directly and spare the average joe from any collateral overspill either impractical - or significantly more illegal than protest actions that cast a broader net. The idea from the powerful is to ensure that protest must affect other citizens in order to reach them, and can’t just target them directly. Targeting them, alone, is harassment, or trespass on private property, or … etc.
If your enemies are mad at you, you’re doing something right.
It’s Sweden. They’re going to fine her while telling her that they’re on her side but “rules are rules”, and meanwhile keep on consuming exactly like before without having reflected for a second on anything at all.
Go her. She’s doing very inspirational actions. Hopefully the courts see that.
Police exist to protect capital from even the most basic inconvenience.
ACAB.
Greta is a true treasure and I’m always happy to see her in the news.
How dare they.
Imagine worrying about climate change and not world hunger. The combines need gas dang it
Climate change has the real possibility of affecting rich people.
Poor people having stable access to food would negatively affect the wealthy. Who else would, say, desperately mine our cobalt?
Climate change is the biggest thread to food production. Food and water scarcity will be (and to some extend already are) among the very first noticable catastrophic effects of climate change.
Good.
