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Clearly, a good portion of the population isn’t aware of how serious the situation is, it’s still an election issue.

If the right level of awareness was reached, having any kind of oil money around you would be a political death sentence. Instead, Trump has public bribe meetings with oil execs and his base grows because of it.

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Ok, now please explain, since no one else will, why pissing people off is a good way to achieve that.

Have you ever convinced anyone of something by pissing them off?

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I don’t know… oil companies piss off lots of people when they cause oil spills…and yet they’re rolling in profits day in and day out.

Maybe these protesters are trying imitate how oil companies behave since its works so well for them?

Damage the environment and make money if your an oil CEO. Temporarily color stone henge with zero damage and everyone loses their minds. Kinda backwards if you ask me.

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It works for them because they have trillions of dollars at their disposal. The activists do not.

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MLK advanced civil rights by being a nuisance. Gandhi pushed Britain out of India by being a nuisance. I’m sure there are others.

It is in the nature of protest to be disruptive. It has to be. If it isn’t, it gets ignored. Climate change is getting ignored. What would you rather they do, go deface an oil refinery? That’ll just get them arrested and the news suppressed. Big public displays that can’t be hushed are the only way to make sure your message reaches the world. These folks have been considerate enough to make sure that message didn’t permanently damage its canvas. I don’t know what more you could ask from them.

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I said I was glad it wasn’t damaged. I don’t know what more you could ask from me.

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The message is that people care more about non-damaging vandalism to famous objects than they do about climate change which will cause irreparable damage to many of these same objects, be it through hazardous weather, rising seas, or global conflict.

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The message seems to be that I care more about it, which is just a lie people are accusing me of.

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They said the same about woman and gay rights movements. You can’t make noise, block traffic or even talk about it without pissing people off.

Not to mention most of the anger is manufactured by oil execs and then enabled by people with little to no proper reasoning skills.

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That’s a little different from disrespecting a religious festival, isn’t it?

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Why are you more angry about a stunt that did no damage than you are about actual ecological damage done by oil companies for profit?

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How do you know what I’m more angry about?

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