Trouble is you need a LOT of money to be effective at that. And I am talking £millions to bribe each MP/politician.
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Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t get protesting for climate though. Isn’t it better to solicit and use lobbyist like the crooked government, big tobacco and energy industry uses.
I’ve never seen a tobacco executive standing in front of a truck yet they get their way all the time.
When do climate activists act like bugs bunny and start mirroring behavior that’s proven to work.
UnD3Rgr0uNDCL0wN@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Shouldn’t this be a problem that gets millions in funding. How many protestors are there willing to give up their time but not $5?
I don’t understand the refusal by climate protesters to play the game that everybody from my dentist to the big industrial players play.
How did climate protester’s somehow get convinced that standing in traffic and annoying the public is the best use of energy
DessertStorms@kbin.social 1 year ago
You really don't seem to understand just how big the wealth disparity between the entirety of humanity and the wealthiest 100 or even 1000 people on the planet is.
Throwing what is essentially pocket change at those who serve the money hoarding monsters (our governments) is as useless as putting a band aid on a cancer.
Oh, and never even mind that lobbying absolutely is bribery, the fact that you see it as a legitimate tool goes to show just how fucked we are.
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How does lobbying work? Can you explain the steps and how its certainly bribery
Gadg8eer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
These lemmies saved the world with this one weird tip! Big Oil HATES them!
But seriously, the above. Big Oil and corporate lobbyists in general don’t want you to know that lobbying can be done by the public, by making it so taboo that it makes good causes look bad if they lobby.
IntergalacticZombie@feddit.uk 1 year ago
It takes a lot of money to bribe um… I mean lobby for change. By being disruptive you raise awareness and get media attention that makes the situation harder to ignore.
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Isn’t it also expensive to protest. These organizations constantly need to solicit funds for this stuff. If climate is an issue that globally there is a huge support to solve. How hard would it really be to higher a couple lawyers, some marketeers, a couple quant phd and start targeting politicians.
You say its expensive but I know of individual families that do this type of thing to change laws because they own businesses locally that need laws changed.
Why is it that a climate protestor is standing in roads screaming while tobacco is at dinner with the people making the laws.
I know the FBI often infiltrated organizations back in the 70s and directed them how to behave so that they couldn’t grow and become bigger threats. They would get these groups to chase red herrings and look foolish burning energy on ineffective goals. That seems like its not talked about anymore. But when I see people throwing paint at works of art or fastening their own necks to industrial machinery while the blue collar every man labourer just trying to do his job has the controls, it reminds me of those stories from the 70s.