Guardian investigation finds growing number of countries passing anti-protest laws as part of playbook of tactics to intimidate people peacefully raising the alarm
This is part of why I’m not a proponent of going out to protest. There are so many problems and risks with doing so, and whether it’s effective or not depends mostly on whether MSM decides to even cover it or make a big deal about it, and then you gotta hope they don’t demonize your side. I mean, if you’re gonna get in legal trouble, make it worth it and help take down MSM and make it harder for them to demonize the resistance lol.
I’m not saying don’t go out and protest, I’m just saying look at it realistically and ask whether there are other actions that would have a better chance at building a better world. I recommend building resilience at the community level, it’s hard, especially for introvert types. Help work each other’s gardens and learn skills.
Depends a lot on what you do and in which country.
Protests can serve as social proof that there is widespread support for climate action. This is important, and helps bring more people on board and tell politicians that it’s worth their while.
It very much depends. Holding up signs and shouting loud really does depend on the MSM, but blockades and other more disruptive forms of protests are a great tool to actually hurt fossil fuels were it hurts the most, in the wallet.
The thing is we need to do two things at the same time. One is to shut down fossil fuels as quickly as possible and for that protests are great solution. The other part is to build up an alternative and for that protests are really not the way to go, as quite frankly the people in power want to stay in power and changing the system, which brought them power is a bad move by them, unless they are absolutly forced to. Much easier to destroy them and replace them, just like fossil fuels.
This is part of why I’m not a proponent of going out to protest. There are so many problems and risks with doing so, and whether it’s effective or not depends mostly on whether MSM decides to even cover it or make a big deal about it, and then you gotta hope they don’t demonize your side. I mean, if you’re gonna get in legal trouble, make it worth it and help take down MSM and make it harder for them to demonize the resistance lol.
I’m not saying don’t go out and protest, I’m just saying look at it realistically and ask whether there are other actions that would have a better chance at building a better world. I recommend building resilience at the community level, it’s hard, especially for introvert types. Help work each other’s gardens and learn skills.
Depends a lot on what you do and in which country.
Protests can serve as social proof that there is widespread support for climate action. This is important, and helps bring more people on board and tell politicians that it’s worth their while.
Yep, I think this is the probably the best use of them.
I assume this is an evidence-based argument and you can share the research proving this?
It very much depends. Holding up signs and shouting loud really does depend on the MSM, but blockades and other more disruptive forms of protests are a great tool to actually hurt fossil fuels were it hurts the most, in the wallet.
The thing is we need to do two things at the same time. One is to shut down fossil fuels as quickly as possible and for that protests are great solution. The other part is to build up an alternative and for that protests are really not the way to go, as quite frankly the people in power want to stay in power and changing the system, which brought them power is a bad move by them, unless they are absolutly forced to. Much easier to destroy them and replace them, just like fossil fuels.