There’s a fair bit of evidence that the art targeting has basically no impact on public opinion though. I don’t think it’s a worthwhile use of arrest-risk as a result.
This carbon tax, like most others, is designed so that the price is initially far below the damage done by the emissions, and it rises over time to encourage behavior changes. So no, I don’t expect it to initially make much difference. I do expect it to make a difference in the future though.
I’d recommend the combination of a march with symbolic disruption or vandalism of conspicuous excessive fossil fuels consumption (eg: private jets or motor yachts) or refining.
Probably more than the official 1300, but it’s Saudi Arabia, so we’re not likely to get a properly-done estimate.
That doesn’t mean that this style of protest is effective; the evidence we have right now suggests that while it makes the news, it doesn’t do much more than that.
I’ll note that the protagonists in that book only targeted things, and not people.
That happened in the late 1970s. The oil companies fired them and hired the tobacco-cancer denial machine instead.
The target audience for a protest isn’t the oil executives; it’s the politicians and the public.
The problem is the bacteria cows use to digest cellulose. That’s not really changed by grass-feeding the animals. What’s needed is to sharply reduce the total quantity of cattle; the only way going to small grass-fed farms is going to make a big difference is to stop raising as many animals.
That requires doing pretty much all the maintenance that has been deferred for decades (PG&E for example didn’t inspect power lines between their installation circa 1920 and when the cast-iron hooks holding up the wires wore through in 2018, causing the wires to fall and start a fire which took out a few towns
It’ll take something like a big march ending at an airport, and a few people vandalizing a private jet.
People understand, and they’re angry about it.
Yeah, they’re trying to extract a bunch of tar, which requires enormous energy inputs to turn into a useful fuel, and which is tough to transport by pipeline.
There are a lot of lawsuits already
The US has had falling greenhouse gas emissions since around 2005 or so. There is actually a lot happening there.
We are doing things, just not yet enough.
This isn’t even a version from their book club. it’s pulled from a court case and not the Bible.
You can do more than that:
It’s also worth paying attention to races further down the ballot; There are lists of close house and close senate races as well as a ton of competitive seats in state legislatures.
There’s usually nothing more than a chain-link fence.
The system was set up using statewide election of 5 commissioners 1907, when the Georgia State Legislature was doing things like passing things like the Felder-Williams Disenfranchisement Act to strip African-Americans of the right to vote. In 2000, they set up districts, but preserved the statewide-election thing.