Comment on Chris Packham: Is It Time to Break the Law?
IntergalacticZombie@feddit.uk 1 year agoIt 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.