saydams:thisrobotbeatcaptcha:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Blow_Up_a_Pipeline From the entry
saydams:thisrobotbeatcaptcha:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Blow_Up_a_Pipeline From the entry on the above book:He asks “At what point do we escalate?”,[1]:8 stating that the modern climate movement has remained committed to “absolute non-violence” and avoided property destruction.[1]:22–23 He criticizes what he defines as “moral pacifism” for failing to account for defensive violence[1]:30–32He states that “property destruction is violence” but that “we must insist on it being different in kind from the violence that hits a human (or an animal) in the face,” distinguishing between violence against property and violence against people, but noting that violence “which hits material conditions necessary for subsistence” is violence against people.[1]:102–103He quotes The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, stating that Fanon wrote that violence “frees the native ‘from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect’.” He concludes that “There has been a time for a Gandhian climate movement; perhaps there might come a time for a Fanonian one. The breaking of fences may one day be seen as a very minor misdemeanour indeed.”[1]:158–161TL;DRProperty destruction (against oil industry, etc) is violence in self-defense. Because what they are doing, hurting the very environment we need to survive, is a violent attack on us. -- source link