I agree that violent action and criminal damage are unacceptable. Some of the people perpetrating these actions say that they do so because our collective trea

I agree that violent action and criminal damage are unacceptable. Some of the people perpetrating these actions say that they do so because our collective treatment of the environment is arguably all three: violent, criminally damaging, and as problematic as literal arson. Society is easily able to identify these harms when perpetrated against man-made structures. Much of society is desensitized or uninterested in acknowledging the same level of harm against the environment itself that is continuous and ongoing. I think these forms of protest are deeply misguided and counterproductive, and I do not condone them. They also highlight the difference in attitudes towards various forms of ongoing harm.