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geminni5 · 6 months

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#climate change #human rights #feminism #activism #greta thunberg #women #children #people with disabilities #feminist #climate activism #climate action now #climate action #climate activst #not mine

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alpaca-clouds · 7 months

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How to Blow Up a Pipeline (or: why the climate movement is failing)

Okay, talking about politics this week, let me talk about this amazing book that you all should read, because it is not that long and it really makes a lot of good points. I found this book through the Philosophy Tube video a couple of years ago.

So, what is this book about?

To put it lightly: It is about how the climate movement is failing over their refusal to use any sort of violence or sabotage. And it is about the ethics of violence.

Which is not only important to the climate movement, but all sorts of progressive movements. Which again brings me back to what I talked about so many times before: Being against a revolution is being against change. And the left in general has a problem with idealizing parcifism to an unhealthy degree.

Let me explain: The left has in general very much drunken the cool-aid to accept that there is no violence happening right now, so using violence against the perceived non-violence is wrong. But that entire idea is bullshit.

Letting people starve, while there is enough food around for everyone, is a form of violence.

Letting people die of preventable deseases, because they cannot afford health care, is a form of violence.

Letting people die in extreme weather, just so that a few people can profit from fossil fuels... Well, that is a form of violence, too.

But left people - especially white, leftists - have very much accepted that non-action can never be violence. So, not giving someone the food they need, cannot be violence in their point of view. So, using violence to act against the system that lets this happen again and again... that is "out of proportion" in their point of view. Because they do not suffer themselves, they do not perceive the violence.

The book talks about how specifically the climate movement refuses to use any form of violence, even just in the form of sabotage, in which no human would ever come to harm. Which is why the title is "how to blow up a pipeline". Because blowing up a pipeline would harm those, who profit from climate change, from the fossil fuels. The book is also about how the climate movement then goes ahead to appropriate civil rights leaders, without really understanding the context they were in. Because they will name Martin Luther King, Ghandi or Nelson Mandela as examples of people who succeeded with non-violence, without acknowledging that all three of those leaders were leaders of a non-violent group that closely associated with a violent movement that aimed for the same changes. And through that contrast - of a violent group and a peaceful group with widespread support - the people in power were forced to make a move to work towards them to some degree.

Now, technically the book involved nothing new to me. Because I thought about this topic - about the ethics and visuals of violence - for a long while now. It also is fitting with the entire French Revolution thing I spoke about on Sunday. Because we see it in the judgement of the French Revolution as well. On how there a) was a peaceful group first, and b) the violence that happened, happened in response to other violence.

And as the book points out: The fossil fuel industry does not care. As a German I know this too well. And I think it is no accident that a lot of the examples of this in the book come from Germany. Our climate movement here is very tame. It is mostly just kids (like people between their teens and early twenties) doing protests in forms of blocking streets and the likes. Yet, the fossil lobby and those in power will call that "terrorism" and will call that one time when folks tore down a fence at the coal mine as "extreme violent behavior". They are doing massive and at times violent police action against those KIDS, who organize the street blockades. Having thrown literal teenagers into prison for at times weeks, before judges intervened clearly saying that "the kids have done nothing illegal".

They do not care that the movement is non-violent. And the movement will not get anywhere, without some group standing in and doing some damage to the most important thing those people can think of: Their base line.

#how to blow up a pipeline #climate movement #fridays for future #climate action now #anarchism #anti fossil fuels #protest #solarpunk

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radicalgraff · 1 year

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"Climate Criminals"

Painted on a Barclays Bank on Oxford street in London

#graffiti #graff #vandalism #climate #climate action now #street art

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atompowers · 29 days

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"It will take cathedral thinking"

#cathedral #poem #poetry #art #environment #greta thunberg #quote #climate #climate action now #quotes #solarpunk #climate poem #triptych

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alicemccombs · 2 years

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#peter kalmus #climate human #climate action now #healearth

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humnooshop · 9 months

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Baby it's hot outside.

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#climate change #climate crisis #climate action #climate emergency #global warming #climate action now #environmentalism #earth #climate catastrophe #heatwave #there is no planet b #environment #planet earth #no planet b

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hleavesk · 2 years

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don’t be fooled.

(source: bbc news | 3 may 2022)

#Climate emergency #climate action now #phantom forests #greenwashing

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alder-knight · 1 year

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ChatGPT response to the prompt "explain climate change in the voice of William Shakespeare"

Prithee, attend, thou gentle souls and wise, To hear a tale of warming in our skies, A change that doth the very earth beset, And causeth all in sundry ways to fret.

In days of yore, when men didst burn with greed, The blackened stone and ebon oils did feed Their wanton lust for progress, wealth, and might, Unwittingly they set a course for blight.

By burning these, they spewed into the air A noxious gas, invisible yet fair, This gas, which men doth call carbon dioxide, A potent brew that nature doth deride.

Forsooth, this gas, with others of its kin, Doth form a veil 'round all the world so thin, That traps the sun's warm rays within its fold, And causeth Mother Earth to sweat untold.

By slow degrees, the oceans and the land Do feel the grip of this ungentle hand, Which melteth ice and causeth seas to rise, And storm and drought to plague our mortal lives.

Now, mark me well, dear friends, as I relate The consequence of mankind's folly great: The time is nigh when all that dwell on earth, Must reckon with the cost of progress' birth.

To halt this change, we must our ways amend, Turn from the path which leads us to our end, Embrace the power of sun and wind and wave, And strive, dear friends, our noble world to save.

via the Climate Action Now App newsletter

#just thought it was an interesting use of ai #chatgpt #ai #climate action now #i work in climate #climate change #climate crisis #poetry #shakespeare #-ish #it's not that shakespearean but not bad for a robot

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timmurleyart · 1 year

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The oil tanker. Oops. 🚢⛽️💲⚫️🔥🌍💵💰

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kitviolet · 2 years

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#auspol2022 #auspol #greens #vote green #vote socialist #vote climate #climate action now

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birdoutofdodge · 2 years

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A moment of recognition and respect for the final actions of Wynn Bruce, who died on April 23, after immolating himself in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as an act of protest against the climate crisis.

He is at least the second environmental activist to take such a course of action in four years, the previous individual being David Buckel who died in NYC.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/04/26/wynn-bruce-fire-supreme-court-climate-activist/

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/28/nyregion/david-buckel-fire-prospect-park-fossil-fuels.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share

#Wynn Bruce #David Buckel #climate change #tw suicide #tw fire #environmental activism #climate action now

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hallofhelios · 9 months

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It is 22nd July and I am laying in bed under the duvet with a jumper on!

#org #climate action now #right now pls

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radicalgraff · 1 year

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