“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
I'm incredibly skeptical of that claim. General deterrence likely doesn't work even when you throw people in prison, but it's supposed to work when the consequence is occasional tire deflation?
How many people are even aware of this?
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I think it might not be people directly worried about tire deflation, that simply won't ever happen enough for people to realistically worry about it. But the message going along with it being spread, is probably making people think about whether they actually need an SUV before buying one. Some people will be outraged when they hear about tire deflations happening, if they do anything they might purchase some type of locking device to go over their air valve. Others will have the idea of SUVs causing emissions reinforced in their mind.
So if it actually is reducing purchases, I'd say it's a good propaganda campaign.
Tbh people are angry enough that it's made much wider news than I expected the few times it's happened, but yeah the prison comparison is a strong point.
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Compare it to speeding tickets, then. How well do they keep most people from speeding?
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Tons of people speed all the time. Going 5 over in the U.S. is taken for granted even though there are tons of "I got a ticket for 3 over" stories out there. In plenty of places you'll get passed doing 10-15 over.
It's reddit-tier pedantry to treat this as if it is some wholly unique thing that has zero comparisons anywhere else. The only time people pretend reasoning by analogy is some foreign concept is when every comparison brought up calls what they're saying into question.
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It doesn't matter where the incentive comes from -- the state or some political group.
Either way, if you drive in a certain manner (too fast or in an SUV) you run some risk of a minor bad outcome (a ticket or a flat). Most people don't take risks like this too seriously if there is any appeal whatsoever to doing what they want.
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Every little bit helps, I guess, but the skepticism a lot of people here have for this is precisely because they don't belive little stuff like this is at all meaningful.
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A bad idea is a bad idea whether you have a better one or not. If I tell people to shit in their hat to protest climate change you don't need a better idea to call that nonsense.
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Comparing throwing people that are addicted to drugs into prison instead of giving them access to healthcare to people deflating car tires is in no way a “strong point”.
I don't think that's really the comparison.