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The moral case for destroying fossil fuel infrastructure

• Bostonian 5y ago
  Depriving people of energy will cause them to starve or freeze to death, and they will take action before that happens.
  • version_five 5y ago
    > they will take action before that happen It would be nice to think so, but I'm not so sure anymore.
• b9be520d93286 5y ago
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• pkdpic 5y ago
  > We could destroy the machines that destroy this planet. If someone has planted a time bomb in your home, you are entitled to dismantle it. More to the point, if someone has placed an incendiary device inside the high-rise building where you live, and if the foundations are already on fire and people are dying in the cellars, then many would believe that you have an obligation to put the device out of action. Can't help but think that if an apartment building owner was storing an incendiary device that I wouldn't necessarily have a legal right to know or to destroy it as a tenant... > In Berlin, half a dozen young climate activists calling themselves ‘The Last Generation’ recently went on a hunger strike...[and] a group calling itself ‘Fridays for sabotage’ claimed responsibility for rupturing a piece of gas infrastructure... This is definitely one of the driving forces in Kim Stanley Robinson's vision of a successful battle against climate change. Wondering how common this might become and how much it might actually help the cause.