2y ago

'I’m here for my grandchildren': Two pensioners storm Wimbledon court to demand climate action

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Just Stop Oil protesters storm Wimbledon court and throw confetti

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2y ago

Just Stop Oil protesters storm Wimbledon court and throw confetti

www.euronews.com /green/2023/07/05/im-here-for-my-grandchildren-two-pensioners-storm-wimbledon-court-to-demand-climate-action

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The idea of pensioners storming anything is hilarious. I'm glad to see members of that generation speaking up.
- Beats them speaking up about how they could afford property so why can't the younger generations
- I'll take two pensioners over zero pensioners.
  
  Best I can do is one pensioner.
No. They're there to support they own sense of moral virtue and righteousness. They've done far more harm for climate activism than good. Now climate activism is seen as some sort of annoying lefty pastime instead of the absolute urgent matter that it is.
- Everyone knows protests are only effective if they don't inconvenience anyone. Ideally, climate activism should be conducted from the inside of one's closet. That's how real change happens!
  
  But why are they inconveniencing people who wanted to watch a tennis match and not idk... oil execs?
  They get as much sympathy from me as I gave the truckers who protested outside my apartment building in Ottawa trying to convince me covid isnt real as if I had any decision making power
  Tl,dr: pick your battles
- Yeah, because governments were all over it before these protests started it right.
- Staying silent and doing nothing is gonna help how?
  This is generating conversation on the topic, which is good.
  Protest disrupts, that's the point.
  
  This is the problem, people have been quietly talking about this issue and trying to convince people for decades. Barely anything has happened. Protest is supposed to be inconvenient. Not sure whether this type to protest works, but the quiet, passive way certainly doesn't.
  
  Who is doing nothing? I would love to do nothing for even a week. People are working their asses off.

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