What do you think of environmental protest groups?

https://lemmy.world/post/19981489

What do you think of environmental protest groups? - Lemmy.World

Examples include Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion here in the UK. Personally, I think some charities are groups are genuine in their outburst wanting large firms to stop strangling the natural beauty for profit, however for me there is a red line that can be crossed. Blocking roads preventing medical care, people going to work, interview and possibly a nice vacation away. This doesn’t really help but make the public look at your group in a bad light. The same can also be said when attempting to destroy priceless art for a cheap publicity stunt knowing it’ll get clicks on social media. TLDR - I think some groups are genuinely good whilst others are just shouting in a speakerphone, pissing everyone else off. What do YOU think?

…who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.”

I think you’re MLK’s “white moderate”: our greatest stumbling block in our stride towards freedom.