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A thousand wrongs won't equal a right.
Notice they aren't doing this to the biggest contributing countries to global carbon emissions. Shameful display.
Yeah what a shame that the UK still allows some form of protest and does not just shoot them like the Chinese. /s
Seriously the UK is the fithed largest cumulative emitter and even though that is over litterally centuries even recent emissions are well above the global average. Combine that with a government, which allows even more oil and gas drilling, while even opening up a new coal mine. The UK is doing better then quite a few other countries, but it is not exactly great.
The UK is doing great per capita, for an industrialized country. Even if they have histpry, theyve since corrected.
Not good enough. Comparisons don't mean shit. This crisis can not be argued with.
Why are you giving china a pass then? They seem to argue against it successfully
How am I giving China a pass? lmao
Remember this site is just full of people who got banned from reddit lol
If every country did as great as the UK per capita we would be completely and irrevocably fucked.
The UK offshored most of its emissions. So as soon as you adjust for that it is about at the level of the EU on a per capita bases. However the EU has much more laws passed to actually reduce emissions in the coming years.
No - they haven’t
Wait, do you really expect British citizens to fly to the US or China in order to commit vandalism?
What do you think they'd put on their visa application? "Purpose of travel: throw paint on the Statue of Liberty"?
In a world full of bad faith "I support your cause but not your methods" attacks on environmental activism, this is one of the most ridiculous ones I've ever heard.
I'm not sure what to take from this second half, is protest only valid if it happens under a set of circumstances and targets you've chosen? Is protest by a westerner invalid if they don't take a net zero canoe to India or China or Saudi Arabia to deface something there? Surely not.
Well, depending on who you ask, a protest from a westerner is invalid simply because it's a westerner.
Doesn't even matter if it's supporting a "non-westerner" cause, because then you're just another colonizing westerner appropriating something you couldn't possibly undertand. Regardless of your actual understanding, of course.
I really don't know what the OP comment is even trying to say, it just comes off as weirdly confrontational.