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you still don't see that this does absolutely nothing to mitigate or prevent actual damage to the environment? And worse than nothing in terms of swaying public opinion?

At some point one of these wannabee cultural commandos will mess up and cause serious damage to someone or something.

Or they may inspire some of our lesser hinged consumers of media to act out on their own.

It's a dumb tactic, and fosters far more hostility than awareness of the climate crisis.

DU doesn't tolerate climate change denialists. I would assume most everyone on DU wants serious action taken to save our environment.
So look at the responses on this thread. Even a group as sympathetic as DU is mostly outraged at the stupidity of this tactic.

I don't expect the general public to be more sympathetic, in fact probably less.

But then it's so much easier to do the occasional grand stand performative "protest" than to do the hard work of actual political change.