SkyBlueFlux
Well-Known Member
They actually worry me. The reason being if I was some selfish oil company executive reliant on maintaining the status quo, I’d probably be loving this. Infighting, disruption, polarisation, lack of a coordinated effort? Sign me up. Their objective is so incredibly important to me but I have absolute no faith that their actions are ultimately working in favour of climate action, as others have said their messaging is so unclear and confusing.
And this is probably the most important problem mankind has ever had to solve, we simply can’t afford to be polarising the public into opposing tribal camps. We’re not going to get anywhere without broad consensus. Broad consensus is how you get governments to actually take action and that’s the only path to victory (if one even still exists).
Labour had huge amounts of investment earmarked for green infrastructure and I find myself wondering if part of the reason they lowered that pledge is because it was politically easier to drop because of the public opinion on activists like this. I don’t think that’s at all unrealistic. And if that didn’t factor in this time, it could do next time. That’s my worry.
We need to be convincing people why this is so important, not creating “with me or against me” groups. This isn’t the civil rights movement or suffrage, problems that are literally rooted in the existence of different groups of people. As much as people make those comparisons I think they’re extremely unhelpful. This is a different problem and it requires vastly different thinking on how to fix it.
And this is probably the most important problem mankind has ever had to solve, we simply can’t afford to be polarising the public into opposing tribal camps. We’re not going to get anywhere without broad consensus. Broad consensus is how you get governments to actually take action and that’s the only path to victory (if one even still exists).
Labour had huge amounts of investment earmarked for green infrastructure and I find myself wondering if part of the reason they lowered that pledge is because it was politically easier to drop because of the public opinion on activists like this. I don’t think that’s at all unrealistic. And if that didn’t factor in this time, it could do next time. That’s my worry.
We need to be convincing people why this is so important, not creating “with me or against me” groups. This isn’t the civil rights movement or suffrage, problems that are literally rooted in the existence of different groups of people. As much as people make those comparisons I think they’re extremely unhelpful. This is a different problem and it requires vastly different thinking on how to fix it.