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The arson attack at Gigafactory Berlin? What happened?
by pvaldes 3y ago
The arson attack at Gigafactory Berlin? What happened?
- cjk2 3y agoSomeone set fire to a pylon and took the factory (and the important bit: local residents) out for a week or so. Apparently the motivation was protesting against deforestation and using groundwater in an area with drought problems already.
- constantcrying 3y agoEnvironmental activists committed an arson attack to punish Tesla for being economically unfriendly.
- weberer 3y agoIn Germany of all places? You'd think they'd worry about the lignite mines and power plants first.
- reducesuffering 3y agoThen you'd mistakenly think that those people were doing any actual thinking...
- piva00 3y agoThe arson was about localised issues (as another comment mentioned, groundwater and local deforestation), so yeah, they could think about the bigger picture for environmental impact but instead they focused on the local one. You can probably worry about big and small problems at the same time, it's not like because the world is burning that you will allow or ignore a company contaminating the groundwater you and your neighbours use.
- constantcrying 3y ago>The arson was about localised issues No, it certainly wasn't just that. It was also a general attack on Tesla among the reasons listed it was about what cars they were building.
- pvaldes 3y agoHum. Are we talking about environmental activists or "environmental activists"?
- constantcrying 3y agoIt seems pretty clear that they were far left activists trying to punish Tesla. They even published a manifesto on the most popular German leftist/anarchist web platform. Specifically they complained that Tesla makes "SUVś[sic], killing machines and Monstertrucks".