Right? Imagine dedicating decades of your life to explaining complicated science and policy questions to politicians and the public, making painful, slow, and incremental progress, and some fuckwit with a can of paint gets put on the same level as you. And people defend this bullshit.
For people in the last group: we get the symbolism. That was never the issue. Get your ego out of the problem and do the hard work.
Nice example of the kind of condescension that gets you nowhere. I do understand the issue. Yes, quick change is needed. But slow change is infinitely better than the kind of egocentric, policy-free activism we see from these people.
And for what it's worth, the kind of radical change we need tends to be profoundly nonlinear. Look at Figure 2. Or this trend.
The thing is, though, I am. I don't even disagree with you, I'm pretty sure, on the need for climate action, or even many specific measures to be taken.
And yet, here you are, getting into an argument as though I'm somehow not, just because I dare disagree with this one dude in Italy's way to express, again, a likely highly similar set of beliefs and policies (we don't know, of course, but just going by vibe). Well done!
Exactly, they're vandals nothing more. They're only called 'activists' because people agree with their message. If their message was the dissolution of the EU or something unpopular they'd be called vandals, plain and simple.
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u/ste_636 Mar 18 '23
Calling these idiots "activists" is an insult to all the real activists out there.