https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/18/just-stop-oil-van-gogh-national-portrait-gallery-climate-emergency-fund

Last week the group "Just Stop Oil" had two skinny pink haired activists throw cans of soup at Van Gogh's Sunflowers, before gluing themselves to a wall. The group vowed "more protests are coming". Among those to cheer on the soup throwers was fellow activist Morgan Trowland, who saluted their soup throwing and other acts of vandalism and calls for militant action, as well as embracing ideas like "unlimited migration northwards for all africans";
https://twitter.com/morgantrowland
Well Morgan Trowland joined in on one of those direction actions;
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20176123/bridge-eco-protesters-blood-on-hands-deaths-two-women/

He and another member of "Just Stop Oil" scaled the Queen Elizabeth II bridge and attached themselves to the cables to stop all traffic. They issued a set of demands including that the UK government halt all oil and gas licenses. They caused a 6 mile long traffic jam and 2 hour delays for motorists. During the height of the traffic jam, one vehicle trying to pass on the shoulder crashed into a stranded motorist and the good samaritans trying to help her, critically injuring three people. Emergency vehicles were unable to reach the victims due to the congestion for a full 40 minutes, with 2 people dying and 1 seriously injured.

Fortunately, this story has a silver lining. The average adult in England has about a 12.7 tonnes CO2 equivalent carbon footprint per year. Given that the dead included a mother of 4 in her 50s and another woman in her 40s, we can expect that a full ~70+ man-years were shaved off their carbon footprints which may save the global climate as much as 889 tonnes CO2e. The drawback is that because the injured man has a broken back, he may be paralyzed and thus require greater public resources and a larger carbon footprint, but that could always be solved by euthanizing the undesirables with more direct measures. So at least we can all salute the efforts of these brave soup throwing radicals as they save the world from the horrors of climate change

fear the far right though

I forget which group but some other activists glued themselves to the floor at some fancy car show recently. they got left there and were upset they didnt get given bedpans to defecate in.

That’s fucked up

Western white liberals who really never faced any sort of hardship growing up in their middle-upper cloisters that do this type of shit are cancerous to our societies.

Also we’ve seen more than enough of these harassing blocking of traffic protests. Laws need to catch up. The penalties should be raised. If you purposely block traffic as a form of protest = automatic 6 months in jail.

Traffic jams happen all the time. You can hardly blame the protesters for an accident like that.

Honestly we are heading to a doomsday scenario with global warming with no signs of stopping. This is a pretty minor inconvenience compared to what's going to happen.

You certainly can blame them when the traffic jam was their explicit intention and carried a reasonably foreseeable deadly risk to the general public.

sums up most of the privileged pale folks/lefties here


>“you cannot blame people for intentionally causing traffic jams”

lmao

Traffic jams are like riots, shootings or abortions. Sometimes it just happens, its not anyone's fault

Global warming...

You can be all in favour of what protesters are doing and you might even be able to articulate why you think protests such as this one are a net positive, but you can’t deny they caused the traffic jam and the ensuing risks.