“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
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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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