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People will start to get more radical if things don’t change. They are starting now to deflate the tires of oversized SUVs. Later I can imagine the destruction of property which is damaging the environment and the disruption of industries like coal power plants.

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Environmental terrorism won’t catch on since it is after all, you know, terrorism. A crunchy granola crackpot letting air out of a few car tires won’t become a trend, it’s a clickbait for ecofacists.

When whole countries start experiencing deadly heatwaves and crop failures making them uninhabitable, we will have real terrorism and wars over this.

It won’t have to catch on because the change is already happening. Negative sentiment around oversized cars, fossil fuel companies, and single use plastics is already widespread.

Throwing paint on fur coats didn’t unite buyers in buying more fur coats, it just highlighted how unethical they were to a population that mostly already agreed.

Agree. It’s all about moving the Overton window to determine what gets mass adoption.

You can feel negatively against those things without supporting ecoterrorism like degassing tires, blocking freeway traffic, and vandalizing property.

Sure, and you can do both :)

And that doesn't matter as China is what's driving CO2 increase. But folks "gotta do something", especially if it targets their outgroup.

Us outsourcing manufacturing to china is driving co2. Can’t blame that one on china.

Even if that is the case, then it's still pointless to flatten SUV tires, etc.

Isn't the problem that already developed countries are not banning things from population and forcing them back into subsistence farming? So that they could get emissions back to level they were before industrialisation?

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