Three climate activists have been fined for attempting to spray political messages on Woodside boss Meg O'Neill's home, after a Perth magistrate told the trio they had crossed a line by targeting her personally.
We haven’t addressed it once, the ABC article paid scant attention to it. Disrupt Burrup has kind of failed to build any sort of popular support after this. So i think it not only diluted their protest, i think it completely undermined their message.
This is a fair and valid point. Believe it or not: while I think that their actions in this case are not cool, I am at heart a tree-hugging hippy who genuinely does try to minimise his personal environmental impact. So, I went to their website. I downloaded their pdf and read what they’re all about. And I’m not really all that moved. 32 pages of noise can be summed up by a single sentence on page 10: “Our aim is to halt industrial expansion on the Burrup Peninsula to protect climate and culture.”
I read the document. I skimmed it a second time in case I missed it the first time. But nope, they don’t propose any sort of alternative to extracting gas. Even Twiggy Forrest is spending serious money and effort trying out new technologies to replace our reliance on digging up and burning fossil fuels. These guys think everyone would be cool with just stopping all that and living without electricity or something. That’ll never fly as a cause.
It’ll never fly as a cause, and the path Twiggy is on is the only path to follow for now, as you say, the others are untenable for various reasons ranging from we have to do something to we have to take people less interested with us on this journey and hey, electricity is kinda nice to have.
Don’t link it, you have thoroughly dissuaded me from being interested in reading the Disrupt Burrup manifesto now. Sometimes well intentioned people need to slow down and think things through before they put those sorts of documents together.
The quote below, i found interesting pertaining to when and when not to be disruptive, [email protected] might also be interested in this perspective,
We’re going to put on the suits […] and we’re not going to scale their buildings and release confidential information that they’ve given us to the media […] I don’t judge those that have that theory of change, because we need both, we need the really extreme advocacy to make us look mainstream and medium and reasonable.
This is a fair and valid point. Believe it or not: while I think that their actions in this case are not cool, I am at heart a tree-hugging hippy who genuinely does try to minimise his personal environmental impact. So, I went to their website. I downloaded their pdf and read what they’re all about. And I’m not really all that moved. 32 pages of noise can be summed up by a single sentence on page 10: “Our aim is to halt industrial expansion on the Burrup Peninsula to protect climate and culture.”
I read the document. I skimmed it a second time in case I missed it the first time. But nope, they don’t propose any sort of alternative to extracting gas. Even Twiggy Forrest is spending serious money and effort trying out new technologies to replace our reliance on digging up and burning fossil fuels. These guys think everyone would be cool with just stopping all that and living without electricity or something. That’ll never fly as a cause.
It’ll never fly as a cause, and the path Twiggy is on is the only path to follow for now, as you say, the others are untenable for various reasons ranging from we have to do something to we have to take people less interested with us on this journey and hey, electricity is kinda nice to have.
Don’t link it, you have thoroughly dissuaded me from being interested in reading the Disrupt Burrup manifesto now. Sometimes well intentioned people need to slow down and think things through before they put those sorts of documents together.
I read an interesting guide the other day, its on c/environment, Make a noise or Work with the system
The quote below, i found interesting pertaining to when and when not to be disruptive, [email protected] might also be interested in this perspective,
We’re going to put on the suits […] and we’re not going to scale their buildings and release confidential information that they’ve given us to the media […] I don’t judge those that have that theory of change, because we need both, we need the really extreme advocacy to make us look mainstream and medium and reasonable.