They are not on trial for manslaughter but sabotage and disobedience to law enforcement, which twelve of them were convicted for⁰

0: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/stockholm/domen-mot-miljoa...

> How in the world does this help stop climate change?

It doesn't really; I think these are expressions of frustration over the inaction and ridiculous politics of it all.

On an emotional level I find it hard to to be sympathetic to be honest. The solutions aren't even that hard, and the amount of investment needed isn't even that large (relatively speaking). It's very frustrating things go at a snail's pace just so $political_party_x can claim 0.2% extra GDP growth or whatever, which will of course be paid for many times over down the line in a country like the Netherlands, half of which is below sea level already.

Does this sort of activism help? No, almost certainly not. But it seems like everything else has been tried already, so... why not try it? For my part, I just accepted it's going to be fucked and not much we can do about it.

I’m using Kagi and can’t find any reference to this using “activists glue hand to road charged with manslaughter”

Do you have a link handy?

I doubt you will get a link and if you do it will not be from a reputable source. A group calling themselves "Återställ Våtmarker" did glue themselves to a road in Sweden and an ambulance was delayed for a few minutes, however nobody died. The people responsible are charged with sabotage, not manslaughter.

It does not but it feels so good when you can make other people miserable. It is just a one big schadenfreude for those people.

If you glue yourself to a road you deserve to get run over and die. Darwinism at work.

Do you feel that way about the man who stood in front of the tank in Tiananmen square?

Take your calls for vehicular murder to 4chan. It’s not welcome here.

Were the Tienanmen people climate activists? I am trying to figure out the parallel between the situations.

The people at Tiananmen had a cause to protest, this is just a bunch of privileged assholes throwing a tantrum.

I’d say the impending destruction of our planet is actually a few notches MORE important than the system of government in any one country.

It's inappropriate to perform such a protest in a way that can put people at risk. The possibility that protesting in a public city square holds up traffic such that people could die in traffic is a few notches below blockading an expressway right next to a hospital. I find your comparison bunk and offensive.

You may not like my comparison, but advocating for killing protestors is still not ok. We live in a democracy. You can be mad people blocked a street, but to say they deserve death for that is undemocratic, the kind of logic that has tanks rolling out.

Roads get blocked for all kinds of reasons: Construction of roads i don’t support, accidents because people drive instead of taking transit, cargo i didn’t buy falling off trucks, parades, concerts, etc. should whoever was behind all those causes die?

I don’t advocate for murdering protesters. And traffic can still move with planned closures.

But there are plenty of scenarios where I would choose freeway blockaders having to reap the consequences of their actions vs some innocent citizen stuck in traffic having to suffer or die like if they had a medical emergency.

In a highly contrived hypothetical, if I were rushing my wife to the hospital with a gunshot wound and got stuck in the front line of traffic facing blockaders, and they refused or were unable to move to let me by, yeah, I’d do what I had to do to get my wife to the hospital. And furthermore I’d be doubly pissed at the protesters for the PTSD I’d no doubt suffer if I injured or killed them in the process.

Life isn’t all roses vs tanks, there are a million shades of gray in between and people like you and people who glue themselves to freeway road surfaces have no capacity for nuance. Is it any wonder most people don’t take you seriously in your endeavors? You’re just turning more reasonable people against yourselves.

> How in the world does this help stop climate change?

This is a bit like saying: how in the world will advertising make people buy stuff on a massive scale?

Maybe there are ulterior motives to such actions, such as harvesting attention on Instagram and TikTok.