Climate activists fail where the rubber meets the road

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/climate-activists-fail-where-rubber-
meets-the-road

Climate activists appear to choose their objectives with all the precision 
of blindfold darts.

Take the Tyre Extinguishers, a group of British climate activists who have 
reportedly slashed over 5,000 random tires since March. Since expanding 
this month to the United States, they’ve deflated 40 tires in Manhattan 
and targeted around 20 vehicles in Chicago, Scranton, Pennsylvania, and 
San Francisco.

Flyers left on targeted vehicles tell drivers not to take it personally: 
“It’s not you, it’s your car … This is a machine that destroys life with 
terrifying efficiency.” SUVs and 4x4s — “nails in the coffin of our 
climate,” as the group calls them — are primary targets. The group’s goal 
is to make these vehicles “impossible to own” in urban areas. Nobody needs 
an SUV anyway, they say, as it’s a status symbol existing only to gratify 
the owner’s vanity.

Perhaps the group doesn’t realize that busy mothers with children to 
chauffeur to school and softball practice make up the majority of SUV 
drivers.

Equally out of touch is the band of activists known as Just Stop Oil. 
Members have glued themselves to the frames of the United Kingdom's most 
famous paintings, such as Vincent van Gogh’s Peach Trees in Blossom and a 
copy of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, in protest of continued 
fossil fuel use. A National Gallery of Art spokesperson said John 
Constable's The Hay Wain suffered “minor damage to its frame … [and] 
disruption to the surface of the varnish on the painting” after two 
students glued themselves to it in early July.

Hannah Hunt, one of the two responsible for the damage, said, “There is 
glue on the frame of this famous painting, but there is blood on the hands 
of our government.” Hunt, the Daily Mail reported, has meanwhile “racked 
up tens of thousands of carbon-belching air miles traveling the globe” on 
vacation. Talk about out of touch.

The futile efforts of guerrilla climate fighters are sadly in line with 
the work of actual energy policymakers who pass laws that are equally 
thoughtless, impulsive, and reckless.

Last week, Los Angeles became yet another California city to ban gas 
appliances in new construction. What will it accomplish? Not much — other 
than reducing the quality of stove-cooked meals and further driving up 
energy costs for residents, who already pay 66% more in California than 
they would elsewhere in the U.S. Without sufficient sources of renewable 
energy, electricity still has to be generated by natural gas, which means 
banning gas appliances simply reduces efficiency.

Democrats might as well join forces with the Tyre Extinguishers to slash 
Californians' tires themselves. Soon, it will be too expensive to drive 
there anyway.


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