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Two thoughts related to your "what to do" paragraph: - I vaguely recall a Fredric Brown (?) story where people turn to (conceptually, self-defense) violence ag
by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Two thoughts related to your "what to do" paragraph:
- I vaguely recall a Fredric Brown (?) story where people turn to (conceptually, self-defense) violence against cars because they've reached the insight that the fumes are literally killing them, like cigarette smoke.
- Some people (hmmm, "some people I know") have chosen direct action and planned+participated in sabotage of pipelines and railroads (used for coal and oil transport). Several were arrested in multiple states, but the overall outcome was symbolic with limited media coverage; not really what I imagined as effective, direct action. Now, some have spent time in jail, and some are scared because they feel responsible to their young children, and what happens to the kids if their parents spend a long time in jail?
- cagenut 8y agowhat happens to 10 million bangladeshi children when they go from having two or three rice crops a year to one or two?
- ilove_banh_mi 8y agoHarsh but maybe fair. I readily admit that I don't have the heart to say that to my friends who have young kids. Do you say this in person?