Lobbying is “begging for permission” from people who have been paid to not care. “Direct action gets the goods.”
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Related, there’s actually a rundown on a bunch of the opsec problems with it: https://anarchist-archive.org/library/en/hakan-geijer-popsec-how-not-to-blow-up-a-pipeline
It’s a good story, and would be extremely bad to follow as a recipe. But it would be a good movie to watch with a very small group of like-minded friends.
Wow, I really hope no one writes “How to Blow Up a Fractionating Column With a $20 Drone.” Pipelines are pretty easy to mass produce, but attacks on distillation towers like we’ve seen come out of Ukraine can knock out a refinery for years.
Behold, the eco fascist in the wild, promoting mass murder as a solution to something that can only be solved with cooperation.
Edit: There are extremely specific people who would benefit the world by ceasing to exist, and those people are billionaires. There are way to make billionaires not exist other then killing them.
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17·2 months agoThe United States will cease to exist well before 2035.
Call me when they go full on 1970’s urban guerilla and start kidnapping and executing oil execs, blowing up pipelines, and robbing banks that fund the industry. I honestly would be amazed if anything less worked.
In functional societies, leaving the house isn’t a terrifying or stressful thing. It’s actually nice. Shopping in functional countries isn’t horrible because you aren’t going through space designed around cars to stuff warehouses designed around cars.
Trains, metro, trams, and occasionally busses for mass transit. Bikes and microcars for individual transit.
Pretty sure the future isn’t every person carrying around multiple tons of steel with them every time they need some milk. The push isn’t to full sized electric cars, it’s to electric bikes and micro cars. But yes, China is doing both and the US auto Industry will collapse because it doesn’t care that people don’t want to drive something bigger than a tank.
It will not, but it will destroy everything it built and make capitalism impossible.
Then yeah, also congrats on not being American.
Oh, do you happen to have a military? That’s actually a big chunk of the reason Americans have such a high carbon footprint… That and an entire society built around making it almost impossible to live without a car.
Oh, you should stop by Amsterdam.
This is all that ever needs to be said any time anyone mentions the idea of a flying car.
No, I left because I had the opportunity to get out while there was still a chance. I grew up in the US, and I couldn’t do that to my children knowing I could get out.
But if you’re not able to leave the US, you can still make it better.
The simple fact is that you have to live in a world without cars, or where cars are much more rare, because it simply isn’t possible to build a sustainable society around them. This isn’t even a climate thing, it’s simply geometry. Cars take up space. In order to make space for cars, density has to go down. High population places with low density can’t afford infrastructure because there isn’t a concentrated enough tax base. Basically, most US cities are insolvent and are ticking time bombs that will collapse, like Flint and Detroit in time. As Trump increases economic pressures, American cities will become bankrupt faster.
American infrastructure is crumbling all over the place, because no one can afford to fix it. That’s a car problem. Car infrastructure costs too much to maintain. That’s not even taking into account climate change. The US has never built back from several of the climate disasters that have destroyed critical infrastructure, and these will continue to accelerate.
The US was built around trains, horses, streetcars, and bikes. It’s only within the last 100 years that it’s been completely redesigned around cars. That experiment has been a complete failure, and it was only possible to try because of cheap fossil fuels. That’s gone… and I’m only talking about one of the many headwinds.
So you do have to live without cars. That’s not actually a question. The question is if you will do that on your terms or by the force of complete economic collapse.
I left behind all my friends, a high paying job, a big house with a garden we’d been working on for years, and everything else I lost and sold, to get out because I don’t believe people like you will be able to accept these facts. Oh, and before you say something about me never living outside of a city, I spent the majority of my first 20 years living in places like Gates, OR and Cobb, CA. You can google those if you care to.
It’s not ICE or EV, it’s cars or not cars. Cars are not sustainable.
Well, lobbying in the US means “bribing” and if you’re just going to talk to them without money in hand they don’t give a fuck. Since the film is set in the US, that kind of matters. Lobbying against oil anywhere in the world is basically just ignored. Again, direct action gets the goods.