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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Bruh this has nothing to do with centrism. It's "if we blow up an oil pipeline, the oil will spill out and be far more destructive than it would've otherwise"ism.

Fuck off with your "Insignificant damage" bullshit.

Fuck fossil fuels, fuck the industry that peddles them, but your ideas would just cause way more problems than they solve.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It doesn't have to be an extreme like that. It would send a strong message If every gas station had to replace their LCD screens every week, or the windows of their headquarters.

But I guess non-action and bootlicking while we wait for our thoroughly bribed politicians to do nothing is better.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gas stations are not the place to make a difference. It's at the very end of the supply chain.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Especially when gas stations are often individually franchised... Burning an Exxon down doesn't actually hurt the Exxon company all that much.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A large number of gas stations are franchises. Breaking the LCD screens hurts the local franchise owner, not whichever fossil fuel company they're working with.

More to the point, breaking LCD screens accomplishes absolutely nothing. Most people don't drive because they love driving, they drive because of zoning, sprawl and a lack of reasonable alternatives. If you get rid of fossil fuel infrastructure without fixing the underlying car dependency, they'll be stuck at home.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The people downvoting you clearly haven't lived anywhere with shitty public transportation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I do, and I get it. We used to have the infrastructure, but it was lost as our communities became more car-centric. Personally, I own a cheap used fuel efficient car that I only use when I have to drive long distances.

I also know a lot of people who own gas-guzzling pickups and SUVs who don't need them, and people who choose to live in expensive suburban areas because they fancy themselves too good to live amongst us "poor people" in "bad neighborhoods" because we're supposedly dangerous. Also, a lot of people who think they have to drive everywhere they go, even a few blocks from their home. Those people can fuck right off.

I'd rather be inconvenienced by losing my car than continuing to subsidize the type of people I see driving every day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Breaking those LCD screens might just convince them to stop installing them, stop playing those fucking ads while I'm trying to refuel.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The problem with gas stations isn't their LCD screens.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

But I guess non-action and bootlicking while we wait for our thoroughly bribed politicians to do nothing is better.

Nation-wide action, of course, is best. Something like the green new deal or even a market-based solution like cap-and-trade or a carbon tax.

On a local level, though, there's a lot of action that can be done.

Nation-wide, the biggest category of carbon emissions is transportation, at 28% of all emissions. Over half of all transportation-related emissions are from cars and trucks.

The amount people drive is closely tied to local urban design, which comes down largely to local zoning regulations and infrastructure design. Those are primarily impacted by the people who show up at town meetings and vote.

Advocate for walkable, mixed-use zoning, improved bike infrastructure, etc. Most people aren't "drivers", "cyclists" or "public transit riders", they're people who want to get from point A to point B as easily as possible and will take whatever is best.