"We're building an army:" Angry anti-renewable groups take to city streets ahead of state election
2 days ago by HaraldvonBlauzahn to c/climate
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/43777872
The protest, organised by Across Victoria Alliance, brought around 300 CFA volunteers, farmers, One Nation and National party supporters, and a variety of renewable energy opponents into Melbourne on the sunny Friday morning.
Speakers, mainly men standing inside a large delivery truck, used Trumpian language to play up city-country divisions and went hard on militaristic calls for a war on transmission lines, renewable energy and data centres.
I'm disappointed that so many farmers and CFA (Country Fire Authority volunteers) who are going the be the most affected by climate change fronting this anti-renewables rally.
There is a web site which analyzes and tracks such efforts, desmog.org.
Nah! The Gilet Jaune came from a righteous place, it could have been co-opted but at the first they were protesting the end of the accessible Diesel program. The France gov a couple of year prior started a program asking people to buy diesel car (because they’re more efficient and produce less atmospheric gaz, etc.) at a discount. Fast forward to 2018 and the gov said « woopsie we don’t care anymore », now a bunch of low and middle middle class see their wallet being press for Big Gaz Companies’s profit and they got angry, knowing the French they took the streets and burn their city.
What the actual fuck is this idiocy?
opposing renewable energy = threatening to take your money in exchange for fossil fuels
fossil fuels promoters do not simply promote, they bully and threaten with violence your choice to buy elsewhere
I guess Water World was a documentary.
This is why we can't have nice things.
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I'd be interested who organizes, agitates, and finances such insanity.
I don't have proof, but I think the 2018 Gilet Jaunes in France, which protested against a fuel tax, were an influence campaign. They were mentioned in the Epstein-Bannon emails.
Similar the "Farmers protests" in Germany 2023 which blocked motorways because fuel subsidies were planned to be shortened - they targeted the social democrat - Greens - liberal "Ampel" government.
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