• @ABCDE@lemmy.world
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    311 days ago

    Blocking roads in protest has proven effective at exactly one thing: Increasing the enforcement and penalties for jaywalking.

    Well… no.

      • @ABCDE@lemmy.world
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        111 days ago

        I can cite many news articles which show that protesting in this way is more effective.

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          10 days ago

          No doubt, no doubt. There are plenty of articles claiming JSO protests are effective.

          Of course, if they were actually effective, you wouldn’t need to point to news articles promoting the virtues of standing around in the street. You’d be able to point to oil consumption rates. If their protests were actually effective, oil consumption rates would be falling.

          The reality is that those articles do nothing but make you feel good, like something is being done. But reality doesn’t care about feelings, or the fiddling articles designed to make us feel good while the world burns.

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            15 days ago

            If that is the only metric you are looking it, kind of. It slumped during COVID and has looked like it’s tailing off somewhat. Without tax breaks, subsidies and support for other forms of transport, say, we will not shake our dependence.

            But, we can look at specific countries and see if those things have helped on a national scale, like Norway, for example, which has seen consumption decline since 2018. And Sweden. And Japan. And Germany. And…

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              Norway, for example, which has seen consumption decline since 2018.

              They started obstructing traffic in 2022, not 2018. Norway’s consumption has increased, significantly, since they began obstructing traffic.

              Japan’s decline since then is commensurate with its population decline. Germany’s and Sweden’s are flat. UK is up even more than Norway.

              • @ABCDE@lemmy.world
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                15 days ago

                I am telling you when their trend started. Norway’s consumption has not increased, it is down on 2018, as I said. It had a slight decline in 2023 (the increase between 2020 and 2022 is when people stopped driving during COVID then came back to restart its downward trend).

                Japan’s decline since then is commensurate with its population decline.

                Actually no, if you know what commensurate means. The population has dropped around 4% since 2008, yet oil consumption has been decreasing since 1996.

                Germany is similar in terms of consumption, Sweden likewise.

                https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/oil-consumption-by-country

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                  5 days ago

                  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

                  JSO didn’t exist in 1996 or 2008 or 2018 or 2020. It was founded in 2022.

                  You’re giving JSO traffic obstructions credit for declines that happened decades before they came into existence, and in countries where they havent actually disrupted traffic.

                  You’re giving them credit for “declines” that have actually been increases since the time they started regularly obstructing traffic in 2022.

                  Obstructing traffic is not an effective means of protest. Target actual agents and entities associated with the oil industry, not the victims.

                  • @ABCDE@lemmy.world
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                    14 days ago

                    Sigh… and how would you like to quantify that when there are so many factors?

                    Obstructing traffic is not an effective means of protest. Target actual agents and entities associated with the oil industry, not the victims.

                    They are effective and bring about awareness among other things.