Protesters who glue themselves to public roads, Yay or Nay?

I'm less inclined to listen to folk who take extreme action to voice their agenda. Just makes people hate you and your cause.

I support environmentalism, in the way that other thousands of people do, rewilding, habitat rehabilitation, community out reach. These are methods which are working NOW.

You and I help by cutting down plastic usage or using less electricity.

These folk? Railing at the world? If they could join all these efforts and initiatives they'd supercharge the cause.

Look at Boyan Slat, a man who went after the goal of cleaning up the Great Pacific Patch and started projects around the world of preventing the plastic from entering the ocean in the first place.

Dozens of communities, educated, trained and funded to effect change.

Or Mossy Earth, a group that supports rewinding efforts all across the world through public donations which they use to fund those efforts through already existing organisations who are working on the problem.

Or the dozens of universities who are working on renewable technology to find new ways to solve issues or improve what we already have.

I have no time for protesters when these other heroes are already doing their damndest to see our world healed.

You don't win friends or achieve aims by making enemies of the very people you want support from.

And why in public areas ?
If your gripe is with industry or financiers or government THAT'S where you need to be

The protest works if they disrupt the company doing the damage. But when you irritate ordinary people who are not to blame it means many people will never support their cause.

I think they could choose their targets better.

Extremism in any form is something I cannot take seriously.

If they can glue themselves to the potholes that would help

Nah it's not going to help anyone

They should just leave them there.

I remember watching a video of firefighters in Germany carefully trying to get the climate protesters' hands free, and the protesters literally crying because of the pain. I don't think I've ever had so little empathy for someone in pain.

btw, I wonder if these self-righteous hypocrites considered how much extra gas was consumed by the cars sitting in the traffic their little temper tantrum caused.

might make me more susceptible to putting snow plow on dumptruck and removing them from the street...🤔

I find it incredibly stupid and can't take them seriously in any way.

Corruption is part of the culture.
Protesting changes nothing.

I haven't run into any so far, thank goodness, but if I did, I would want to the OPPOSITE of whatever they wanted. Additionally I would want to get out of my car and kick their collective a$$.

It does nothing except make them look dumb. I’d just leave them there to starve and get rained on. Hopefully not run over too badly.

It’s a gimmick of stupid people.