Sounds like my kind of dude! Keep on keeping on Walk. Keep pissing off the bigots!
I hope he knows how much support he has. He's saving us all.
For anybody willing to help him continue this fight, he has a non profit organization that you can donate to:
https://www.crmw.net/donate.php
I'm sure he goes through drone parts quickly given how violent the town seems to be against him.
There are better alternatives to doing any damage as a loner. Be part of a mass movement, so that when the "crime" is done, pretty much everyone is backed by lawyers, as they should. Also any mass movement has easy access to explosives, exactly because of how many people are in it.
Blowing up a fossil fuel industry is hardly a crime when they already destroy our environment and our lives for the pleasure of a few.
In terms of minor crimes, which can be fought against, there are organizations like Extinction Rebellion, Last Generation, Just Stop Oil, Blockade Australia and so forth. They did shut down oil refineries, coal terminals and so forth successfully. Last Generation is accused by the German police to have planned an attack on an oil pipeline, my guess there is some other stuff going on in similar groups as well. There are other historic groups, which went further, but if those are around, they obviously do not have websites.
sorry, was only suggesting
'Non-violent non-normative action' is particularly effective apparently.
I think that label would mostly apply to Just Stop Oil, XR etc.
Very well said. Fully agree. Being from Appalachia, it's so heartening to know someone is there who stands for what's right and against all the reasons I had to leave. He's a saint.
This is the kind of action we need now at this stage. Direct action against the entities making the issue worse. When political options are exhausted, direct action is necessary.
I agree in general. But I thought coal was used to produce solar panels, no? IIRC, I saw a documentary showing how coal and chrystal are baked together in the production of solar panels.
I’ve also heard coal can be used in fuel cells as another alternative to burning it.
In any case, I’m with Junior Walk on this because he’s documenting violations. The coal should be mined legally for solar panels.
So IIUC, you’re saying ban coal (as opposed to controlling the allocation of coal towards clean uses); thus cutting off the supply needed for solar panels and some fuel cells. Then what? We can only have wind turbines?
Don't burn coal to generate electricity. It causes too much emissions and we have other means to generate electricity.
In extension, don't mine coal in order to burn it for electricity.
Other use cases of coal like medical use are not meant. They're also much smaller in scale.
Uh, no.
If you’re going to correct someone you should do a bit of research and face the facts before responding without information. The documentary I saw was a PBS broadcast. IOW, a liberal source not some right-wing climate denial BS. If you search on quartz, coal, smelting, you would easily find this:
https://www.researchgate.net/...
https://hiddenhistorycenter.org/...
W.r.t. coal-fueled fuel cells (#cleanCoal), this is typically the first hit:
Dude he said that solar panels are made from baking coal and solar. Give me a break, that's fucking nonsense. PV panels aren't made in a Minecraft foundry.
What a god damn legend
Without the paywall.
Edit: not paywall, but a barrier to read.
Since when does The Guardian have a paywall?
It cut the article off and told me i had to sign up and… i lost interest at that point and went to 12ft.
It might not have been a paywall, but barrier.
I appreciate your work. Honestly, any site that makes me 'sign up' to read the full thing just becomes another ignored page. Fuck this gatekeeping mentality. I'll never disable ad-blockers and will never sign up for free shit just to use it. Because at that point, it's not free, the price is your info.
This really is the most dystopian of timelines.
There doesn't appear to be a paywall, do you mean the large "pls donate" banner?
You pay with your contact info.
He has a non profit:
His iconoclastic campaign against coal has, he said, resulted in his car brakes being cut and even him being shot at.
At one point, as we drove through one slate-grey mining site, Walk saw some company employees ahead and did a swift U-turn, while offering advice on how to shelter behind a car wheel during a gunfight as we retreated. He previously used a four-wheel ATV to conduct the drone work and has sped away from security guards he feared could kill him and dump his body in one of the holding pits containing syrupy mining slurry.
I have no end for the amount of my respect for him.
What he is doing is not illegal. He just makes coal more expensive, by helping enforce enviromental legislation, by documenting violations with his drone. Given the current economic enviroment, in which coal is more expensive then natural gas and much more expensive the renewables, that is a good strategy.
This might appall some people, but someday I’m going to gain access to a drone, and subsequently the insurance premiums on various Amazon and Walmart properties would be about to experience a drastic rate hike…
The hell? There’s a stark difference between uncovering illegal activities with a camera drone and literal terrorism against retailers you dislike. You should legitimately be put in prison, which you will be, if you were to follow through on your insinuated threats.
I don’t even need to check your comment history to conclude you’d be some sort of radical leftie.
It’s obvious when your response to me critizing literal threats of a drone attack is met with you stalking my profile to post a worthless personal attack. This is about as stupid as it sounds.
Documenting a corporations illegal activities does not equal a drone attack.
You see a lot, Doctor. But can you point that high-powered perception at yourself?
The only one whose mind went to terrorism is the righty, go figure; watching "your neighbors bad" porn all day on every news outlet, and regurgitating it all over social media sites has deluded your poor little mind.
fuck corporations, especially the big ones.
Terrorism against retailers lolwtf.
If I worked at a warehouse and saw a drone flying around, 100% my first thought would be oh that’s corporate trying to find shrink. And if anyone told me it was actually a journalist trying to find dirt in the company, my next thought would be they’re lying and it’s really corporate trying to find shrink.
Well, if this wasn’t a threat of terrorism, then do enlighten me what the user meant by getting his hands on a drone to bring up insurance premiums for retailers. I understood it to be arson.
I'm guessing since he uses the drone to see violations with the coal mines that he will use the drone to record violations with retailers which could raise the insurance in some way
Wow, what a great article thanks for sharing.
Damn, it's nice to see he's doing something which is having an effect, even if it is small in the grand scheme of things.
What an wonderful and inspiring human, I rarely see uplifting stuff like this so I enjoyed reading about him. I hope he can achieve all his dreams and see the end of coal in his lifetime.
God this motherfucker has tungsten carbide balls. All the respect.
Wonderful quote
What a story. I wish him luck.
this guy is a real one
thanks for using Leebra!
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