They have plenty of wind energy too.

People won’t listen because they’ve heard something similar for decades now, and for most people in the western world they haven’t really experienced any decline in QoL due to global warming.

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

I don’t know enough to be able to say how easy it is to take over, but having been done by a single person could mean that no one else has the skills or the interest to do it, or maybe to do it as well as the original person.

I can definitely see why it could make a Linux user worried.

That’s not obvious at all…

Maybe it is to people who are really deep into the Linux world but generally if there’s only a single person in the world doing something, it’s never obvious that someone else will start to do that if the first person stops.

Maybe peaceful protest is not what we should be aiming for…

What does attention in this case help other than more people saying “look at those idiots blocking the road”…in my opinion it may even detract from the cause…

On the other hand, if the CEOs of the companies who are polluting our world and the politicians they’re successfully lobbying have to live in fear in their own homes, shit starts to change quick.

You support stopping random people from going where they’re going but I’m the selfish prick…

Edit: I’m not begging anyone to do anything. I’m arguing with logic… That seems to be aggrevating to people like you.

Edit2: also I’m not trying to get people’s sympathy. The people protesting are…

Depends how you interpret violence. Blocking the freeway is essentially holding people hostage for as long as you’re blocking it.

I think 5 years is extremely harsh but I do think a shorter prison sentence is a fair punishment.

You could be putting people’s lives in danger by doing it and even if you aren’t, you have no right to stop other people from going where they’re going.

If someone stopped me on the streets and refused to let me walk down a public street, that to me would be trying to hold me hostage and I’d react accordingly.

I will if I feel like our politicians deserve it. I definitely won’t hold people hostage to try and get them to sympathise with me…

I’m glad you were put in prison. Go protest in front of where politicians live or in front of the parlament. Don’t inconvenience normal people.

Best case scenario, you achieved to piss of a bunch of random people. Worst case you killed someone who was having a heart attack and being rushed to the hospital.

Honestly, looking from the outside on US politics I have a hard time remembering a presidential candidate, besides Bernie Sanders, that seem to care for the average people living in the US.