Black and white cartoon.  Left panel: a group blocks a road with a banner reading "No new oil | so there's a liveable planet for our children."  Right panel: A boardroom, with members of the board raising their hands.  In front of them is a chart showing planned oil extraction going well above a dashed line marked "Level beyond which there will be no livable plant for our children.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    I get it, but … all anyone accomplishes by barricading a road to protest oil is pissing off people trying to get to work so they have a roof over their heads and don’t starve. They’re not going to think, Oh! Well! I’d better change my ways! I’ll just spend this tens of thousands of dollars I don’t have lying around on an EV (which won’t solve climate change anyway), take the fuck-all existent public transit (in North America), or walk 20 miles to work every day!

    They’re as much victims to the system you are.

    • DessertStorms
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      71 year ago

      people trying to get to work

      yes! The point of protest is to inconvenience the owning class, which this achieves, well recognised!

    • @schroedingershat
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      31 year ago

      if they got out of the car and sat on the road too it would be over in one day