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what are you doing to solve the problem
I try to vandalize a F150 every so often.
Thing is that pretty much every big public event does that. I don't see the same fury over football matches or marathons, which tells me that the objection is the message, not the action.
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No they aren’t.
Yeah I listened to an interview with Roger Hallam on Radio 4 with Nick Robinson and he sounded completely nuts. It was eerily similar to the Charles Manson type cult fearmongering about an impending societal collapse. In particular he seems fixated on the idea of mass sexual violence somehow being caused by climate change?
These people have a messiah complex and their basic instincts are anti-democratic. If their solutions to the climate crisis were politically appealing then people would vote for them; they can't compete in the market place of ideas and so they've taken to being a nuissance.