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US climate scientist risks felony by chaining herself to pipeline drill
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2023
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Poor strategy. Don't get youself arrested.
My bad, next time I’ll have them for a fucking picnic then
Now we're thinking, let's literally eat the rich at a picnic.
You can't advocate for climate change from prison, dummy
. . . Why not?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
Aside from the fact that MLK Jr was already well known previous to going to prison, and wasn't just chaining himself to pipes but had already had well-known speeches. I'm well aware of letters from a Birmingham jail, but somehow I doubt that letters or chaining yourself to a pipeline are going to make a difference when multi-billion dollar industries are benefiting from that pipeline.
It's a little obtuse to say that those are similar and you know that.
Oh my dear boy, we don’t advocate.
We act. Very different things.