The battle over the climate is escalating, and nowhere more than in Western Australia, where a new generation of protesters is prepared to break the law to make their point.

When this happened Meg O’neil ran around town exclaiming how fearful she’d been. But the cops were there, at her house, waiting for the activists.

And whats happened since? Has the Woodside exec been hassled? I haven’t heard about anything more. The activists have though. Who should actually be afraid of who in this situation?

  • DogMuffinsEnglish
    532·
    1 year ago

    I’m criticising them for being completely ineffective. Worse than that even - counter productive, because they undermine effective climate change activism.

    • Nakedmole@lemmy.world
      32·
      1 year ago

      Please describe what is effective climate change activism in your opinion, because I am unsure what you mean by that.

      • DogMuffinsEnglish
        110·
        1 year ago

        Effective climate change activism would mitigate climate change in some way.

        These guys achieved absolutely nothing.

        Are you able to explain what the objective was?

        • Kayel@aussie.zone
          8·
          1 year ago

          How many books have you read on political theory?

          Who are your favorite critics of peoples movements and the history of protest politics?

          • Kayel@aussie.zone
            61·
            1 year ago

            This is an open question to all.

            I have read 4-5 books on political theory, most of them on Marxism and various sects of anarchal socialism. Probably two dozen journal articles.

            My favourite author is some guy out of a French university who published on contemporary civil disobedience a couple of years ago. And I certainly like the classics; Thoreau, Gandhi and ML King.

            My favourite critic of nonviolent protest is Fred Hampton.

                • DogMuffinsEnglish
                  16·
                  1 year ago

                  Sorry mate it’s just a weird thing to say.

                  In anonymous online forums stating your credentials doesn’t have the intended effect.

        • Nakedmole@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year ago

          Effective climate change activism would mitigate climate change in some way.

          Just like you mitigate answering my question, troll -> blocked

          • DogMuffinsEnglish
            13·
            1 year ago

            Ah yes, the hallmark of enlightened debate: block people that ask uncomfortable questions.

            No one has answered my simple question: what were these people hoping to achieve?

    • Tropic420
      8·
      1 year ago

      You are talking about them. Seems quite effective.

      • DogMuffinsEnglish
        25·
        1 year ago

        Well “talking about” yes - but are these people really our best ambassadors? They can’t be our best and brightest surely.

        • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          1 year ago

          So we should patiently wait for things to change by voting every few years?

          Protests are what changed the world for the better.