“The movement have now deflated tyres on around 9,000 SUVs in cities across the world since March, striking continuously, and look set to surpass their goal of 10,000 SUVs deflated by Christmas,” the statement added.
The group has said its aim is “to make it impossible to own an SUV in the world’s urban areas”, condemning the vehicles as “unnecessary ‘luxury emissions’, flaunted by the wealthy, that are a climate disaster, cause air pollution and make our roads more dangerous”.
lol, lmao
reddit slash fuck cars is having a hand wringing field day over this one. Apparently, this is a "step too far" and will only "push people away" and "poison the message" or some such nonsense
Everything is a step too far when it inconveniences me
Wait, how is my mom going to drive us to soccer practice??
Libs gonna lib
"What do you mean, the purpose of direct action isn't to make friends?"
It should be, although the point of the left movement is to build a proletarian movement to crush capitalism in its many forms, not to amend its goals to please reactionaries
Scratch a lib
Couldn't possibly make any waves. That's not what movements are for! It's for internet clout!
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I see this as a generally good action, but yes, agree that I would like to see more.