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The memes of the climate
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The climate of the memes of the climate!
Planet is on fire!
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No, it is activism. It actively draws more attention to these causes, because attention drawing things like gluing yourself to a road attract the media to report on it. Sadly, if everyone just passively protests, it is not enough anymore.
Also, gluing yourself to the road that keeps the machines contributing to global warming from running on it is kind of the point.
Being nice doesn't work anymore. The world is actively burning. If anything, activists should be even more pissed than this, and angry at their leaders/elders for denying global warming.
"We need to raise awareness about this thing everyone is already incredibly aware of!"
How?
"Hm... How about something that's low enough stakes people can continue to ignore us, but also in a way that will make people hate us!"