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ABCDE@lemmy.world 2 months agoI can cite many news articles which show that protesting in this way is more effective.
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ABCDE@lemmy.world 2 months agoI can cite many news articles which show that protesting in this way is more effective.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 months ago
No doubt, no doubt. Plenty of articles claiming JSO protests are effective.
Of course, if they were actually effective, you wouldn’t need to point to news articles promoting the virtues of standing around in the street.
You’d be able to point to oil consumption rates. If they were actually effective, those rates would be falling.
They aren’t. Not by a long shot.
Those “many news articles” are complete horseshit.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If that is the only metric you are looking it, kind of. It slumped during COVID and has looked like it’s tailing off somewhat. Without tax breaks, subsidies and support for other forms of transport, say, we will not shake our dependence.
But, we can look at specific countries and see if those things have helped on a national scale, like Norway, for example, which has seen consumption decline since 2018. And Sweden. And Japan. And Germany. And…
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 months ago
They started obstructing traffic in 2022, not 2018. Norway’s consumption has increased, significantly since they began obstructing traffic.
Japan’s decline since then is commensurate with its population decline. Germany’s and Sweden’s are flat. UK is up even more than Norway.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I am telling you when their trend started. Norway’s consumption has not increased, it is down on 2018, as I said. It had a slight decline in 2023 (the increase between 2020 and 2022 is when people stopped driving during COVID then came back to restart its downward trend).
Actually no, if you know what commensurate means. The population has dropped around 4% since 2008, yet oil consumption has been decreasing since 1996.
Germany is similar in terms of consumption, Sweden likewise.
ourworldindata.org/…/oil-consumption-by-country