Normalizing eco-terror

[rangerrebew]

Normalizing eco-terror
By
Craig Rucker
|
March 2nd, 2024
 
A young girl in a hoodie draws a knife, kneels beside an SUV, and slashes two of its tires.  She slaps a paper on the windshield — “Why I sabotaged your property.”

This is the opening scene of a movie you can stream right now on Hulu or rent from Amazon called “How To Blow Up a Pipeline.” It is adapted from a book by the same name.

Here’s the book blurb on Amazon:

In this lyrical manifesto, noted climate scholar (and saboteur of SUV tires and coal mines) Andreas Malm makes an impassioned call for the climate movement to escalate its tactics in the face of ecological collapse. We need, he argues, to force fossil fuel extraction to stop–with our actions, with our bodies, and by defusing and destroying its tools. We need, in short, to start blowing up some oil pipelines.

https://www.cfact.org/2024/03/02/normalizing-eco-terror/

[Smokin Joe]

When the 'protest' was going on over the Dakota Access Pipeline, (the one where the ' Water Protectors' left 720 semi-loads of trash and debris, a half dozen puppies, and a dead human in a blue tarp--that one in the water) there were three incidents of break-ins into enclosures and attempts to tamper with the valves on working pipelines. Pipeline operators discovered the changes in pressure/flow and shut those lines down.

The potential damage (including environmental) from something like blowing up an oil pipeline makes it terrorism, and the death penalty should be considered, imho, for such acts.

As for my tires, If I catch you, it ain't gonna be pretty, and that's all I'm going to say about that.

[Fishrrman]

The proper solution, to be administered by traditional-minded folks:


... applied with sufficient force to the right areas...