That’s a good thing, right?
Climate activists in Germany to abandon gluing themselves to streets, employ new tactics
A group of climate activists who infuriated many in Germany by gluing themselves to streets to block traffic said Monday that it will abandon the tactic and move on to holding what it calls “disobedient assemblies.”
The Last Generation group frequently blocked roads in Berlin and other cities over the past two years, its best-known but far from its only tactic in a campaign of protests that also included spraying the capital’s Brandenburg Gate with orange paint, among other things.
The group’s tactics were widely criticized, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz described them as “completely nutty.”
Last Generation asserted that the number of demonstrators has increased enormously in the past two years and said that “from now on we will protest in a different form — but it will remain unignorable.”
Oh, this should be good. Unignorable
From March onward, “instead of dividing into small groups and blocking roads, we will hold disobedient gatherings with many people. And where we cannot be ignored,” the group said in a statement.
As well as that, the group said it will increasingly “directly confront” those it considers responsible for climate destruction, for instance by confronting politicians and other decision-makers in public and on camera.
So, easier to score points running them over Carmageddon style? They already create issues with blocking emergency services, this seems to make it worse. How many altercations will occur with German motorists getting out of their cars and dragging the wackos out of the road? How many fights? How quickly will it escalate to something worse? Funny thing is, idling vehicles are even worse, especially in terms of localized non-CO2 emissions.
Doesn’t matter: they’ll still piss people off.
I suppose that they’ve figured out that blocking traffic isn’t winning them any friends, but whatever they attempt, we already know that it’s going to piss off people, because they’re still too f(ornicating) stupid to figure it out.
Actually, I already know what would work. They could put together some strong shows of what individuals could do, and show themselves doing those things, show themselves practicing what they preach, and how easy they say such would be. Yeah, that kind of thing might get less attention, but the attention it did get could actually persuade others that they are serious people.