RE: AGW protesters glue themselves to gov energy department (UK)
November 15, 2018 at 8:59 am
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2018 at 9:01 am by Duty.)
(November 14, 2018 at 3:55 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: First off, can you think of an instance, even one, where protests of this type and scale have EVER effected change in government or business policy? I'll save you the trouble - you can't. A handful of people defacing property and gluing themselves in place are simply not enough of a nuisance to cause an energy company to change their scandalous money-making methods, or cause government to pressure them to do so. If you could get 100 000 or so members of Extinction Rebellion to march down Whitehall, you might have a shot.
If you want to impact a business, the one method which has proved effective is economic boycott. If you want to impact government, you'll need to convince enough like-minded people to vote your way. But what the people in your links are doing really (and sadly) amounts to nothing more than pointless grandstanding. A better use of their time and resources would be to invest in renewables and organize petition drives.
Boru
There was a woman who refused to move from the back of a bus once, and somebody else who jumped under a race-horse but those examples are beside the point. Yes there are no identical examples of protests in an identical climate (NPI) but that is not how linear time works. The occupy Wallstreet protests certainly raised awareness, and that is perhaps a closer example. It's a long time until we Brits next go to the polls...a VERY long time.
Organising boycotts/petitions are good ideas, but substantially less likely to make the news (awareness raising) and a lot more long- winded. They also do not involve putting one's own wellbeing in jeopardy, which suggests a certain lack of conviction compared to, for example, glueing oneself to this or that and getting arrested. Good ideas though, just not analogous really, so I'm gonna have to say "fail" there RE my request.
Investing in renewables - good idea...how does one do that exactly on a large scale? That's government's job innit? Good idea, again, though.
I now understand the South Park episode all those years ago featuring Al Gore's obsession with manbearpig.
