“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 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.