The Melbourne police literally brought the cavalry to break up protests at a mining conference.
I don’t support the protests but can’t say I support the police here either. Very heavy handed. Also the conspiracy theorist in me wonders if they wanted horses to be injured to further tar the protesters.
Oh and great idea to hold your mining conference in Melbourne. They couldn’t find any other cities?
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Nothing wrong with Melbourne but it is the most left leaning part of the county with the highest support for the Green Party. It would be like holding an oil conference in Montreal. You would expect protests.
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David Schwab says he left the notes because he wanted to draw attention to the climate crisis and embarrass people into doing their part to help protect the environment.
"I've done almost everything I can to reduce my carbon footprint, but when I look around me I see a lot of people who could be doing a lot more than they are."
The 25-year-old Victoria resident says he targeted neighbourhoods he thought were more affluent, and where drivers would be able to afford more fuel-efficient cars.
He also says he plans to distribute another 900 pamphlets. He won't say, however, when or where he'll be placing them on cars.
I can't tell if this is supposed to be green text.
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Jesus Christ.
From their article post:
So instead of participating in Earth Day festivities, on the night of April 22, we slashed tires of 40 cars in different Montreal neighborhoods.
We chose this small gesture to offer a glimmer of the quality of disruption that this economy and society require if future generations and our own are going to have a chance at a dignified life on this planet.
I guess I've been living under a rock, but I just found out that the fashion industry is just a terrible polluter, right up there with the Oil and gas Industry.
20,000 liters of water to produce one kilogram of cotton.
20% of Industrial water pollution comes from textiles.
23% of all chemicals produced are for fashion.
It just goes on and on.
Maybe it's just the Alberta bubble I live in, but I don't hear much teeth nashing from the celebrity sphere in regards to fashion, and nothing fashion related seems to get protested like a pipeline does.
And while Oil and Gas is not super friendly for the world, it does a tremendous amount of good in terms of quality of life.
Fashion does nothing for anything.
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Most fashion isn't produced in Canada. Not sure why it's so hard for people to understand that people are always going to protest what's local to them because a) NIMBYism and b) they hold the illusion that they actually hold some leverage over local politics whereas they know they have none over what what goes on in other countries.
There is a difference between appreciating menswear - which is fairly static and is focused on craftsmanship and quality, intended to last forever - and fashion, which is an industry whose primary purpose is to convince people that what they were wearing six months ago should be too embarrassing to be seen in, and that the must now buy the following new things that are "in". The former reduces waste, the latter encourages it.
Not that I'm opposed to fashion designers or anything, it's a valid form of artistic expression. Its use as a symbol of worth or status, I have no time for.
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