Comment on Chris Packham: Is It Time to Break the Law?
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year agoYou might as well say that all climate protest is counterproductive, because people use energy and create pollution just by walking out their door to go to the protest.
Isn’t it small thinking to worry about the pollution caused by the pipeline’s construction, when the pipeline itself is going to facilitate millions of times more pollution once it’s operational?
Sorry, you more or less repeated your point, and I understand you, but I’m just not convinced.
HubertManne@kbin.social 1 year ago
that is a ridiculous analogy because the same protestor will use approximately the same energy regardless of what they do that day. You sound like the folks that argue electric cars are more environmentall friendly because they use less energy than a bicycle but ignoring the energy of the passenger from just existing.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Energy of the passenger?”
HubertManne@kbin.social 1 year ago
the energy a person sitting in a car uses is not much less than the energy a bicycalists uses. Its easy to see if you have access to a gym with a bicycle machine that tells you are many calories you burn. Go burn just 100 calories and now realize people need 2000 just going about their day and doing nothing special.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Are you talking about calories burned? Because riding in a car definitely has a bigger carbon impact than riding a bike. I thought we were talking about environmentalism here. When I said people use energy going to a protest I was referring to their transportation, not their frikkin metabolism.