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Sabotaging trains

vendredi 30 juillet 2021 à 02:00

Supporters of pipeline resistance in Canada are sabotaging trains in ways that can derail them.

I oppose the pipeline, and I admire support nonviolent civil disobedience in that cause. However, to risk causing a disaster cannot be called "nonviolent"; it is going too far.

Enough CO2 to cause death

vendredi 30 juillet 2021 à 02:00

Three-four average Americans' lifetime CO2 emissions are roughly enough to cause the death of one additional person from global heating effects.

Zero-covid strategy

vendredi 30 juillet 2021 à 02:00

*Australia can’t dump zero-Covid strategy until 80% of people vaccinated.*

Withholding communications

vendredi 30 juillet 2021 à 02:00

Steven Donziger has been convicted of withholding his Ecuadorian peasant clients' privileged communications from Chevron, and he has been sentenced to 6 months in jail.

He will appeal, in the hope that a judge that wasn't selected by Chevron will overturn the decision.

Ban on fossil fuel infrastructure

vendredi 30 juillet 2021 à 02:00

Whatcom county in Washington has banned all new fossil fuel infrastructure.

That county has refineries and other fossil fuel facilities, so the refusal to construct more could have a direct impact, as well as setting an example.