this is good, but I think we should build our own (illegal) stonehenge. Or maybe a pyramid. Not only it'd be nice to have something other than microplastic standing after the society collapse, it'd be a huge powerplay. As we seem to be wanting to join earlier civilizations that are no longer here (nor remembered that fondly) it seems only adequate.
My geographic area doesn't really have stone available, best I can do is a mound :(
maybe it is time to leave a lasting megastructure as our tombstone
The entirety of Dubai doesn't count?
Ironically, a plastic megastructure could probably outlast a stone one... Lego-henge?
I don't think that's how it works. Plastic degrades fast (especially with UV radiation), it just doesn't fully go away. That's how we get microplastic and harmful chemicals everywhere.
A thousand wrongs won't equal a right.
Notice they aren't doing this to the biggest contributing countries to global carbon emissions. Shameful display.
Yeah what a shame that the UK still allows some form of protest and does not just shoot them like the Chinese. /s
Seriously the UK is the fithed largest cumulative emitter and even though that is over litterally centuries even recent emissions are well above the global average. Combine that with a government, which allows even more oil and gas drilling, while even opening up a new coal mine. The UK is doing better then quite a few other countries, but it is not exactly great.
Wait, do you really expect British citizens to fly to the US or China in order to commit vandalism?
What do you think they'd put on their visa application? "Purpose of travel: throw paint on the Statue of Liberty"?
In a world full of bad faith "I support your cause but not your methods" attacks on environmental activism, this is one of the most ridiculous ones I've ever heard.
I'm not sure what to take from this second half, is protest only valid if it happens under a set of circumstances and targets you've chosen? Is protest by a westerner invalid if they don't take a net zero canoe to India or China or Saudi Arabia to deface something there? Surely not.
Well, depending on who you ask, a protest from a westerner is invalid simply because it's a westerner.
Doesn't even matter if it's supporting a "non-westerner" cause, because then you're just another colonizing westerner appropriating something you couldn't possibly undertand. Regardless of your actual understanding, of course.
I really don't know what the OP comment is even trying to say, it just comes off as weirdly confrontational.
