Tafdolphin wrote:So we've learnt that environmental activists are sometimes lacking honed media skills. Which immediately invalidates all their arguments, methods and principles.
It's a fallacy, of course. It's also practically how it will probably pan out. Messaging is everything.
Changing attitudes to plastic waste are one of the biggest wins for environmentalists at the moment (which is sad in itself but hey it's something) and that all happened because David Attenborough has a nice voice.
Just like how people think Nigel Farage is right about Europe because he drinks pints down the pub.
The protesters don't seem to be winning popular support, the kind that can drive political change through winning votes. Which probably doesn't matter anyway right now because Brexit is dominating that sphere.
Their other approach then should be direct action causing negative market effects that "encourage" corporations to change their approach, either directly or through lobbying government. Unfortunately TFL are not the business that they need to force change in, and the impact on business through people not getting to work is indirect.
But hey at least they're doing something and raising the profile of the issue as a whole so its at least in the public consciousness. If they do nothing we're already screwed so really there is nothing to lose.
I just wish they'd do it quite a bit better.