Environmental protester halt the world championship in cycling... one of the best alternatives to fuel driven transportation....

zer0 , 10 months ago

What’s mildly infuriating is that you are complaining about these protesters without providing any details on the protest.

JohnOliver , 10 months ago

No worries dude! I got you. Google to the rescue

cyclingnews.com/…/elite-mens-road-race-halted-by-…

zer0 , 10 months ago

nitter.net/Thisis_Rigged/…/1688142514421661696#m

“Rebecca, 28, “as a trans woman I’ve been told I’m not welcome on the cycling track by UCI, at the same time they allow a petrochemical company to field a team showing they have no real care for people. I take to the track to point out this hypocrisy and stand for a better future””

Damage , 10 months ago

Shell produces, among other things, resins used so much in modern bicycles’ carbon fiber

DarkThoughts , 10 months ago

Can't recycle them either. You could potentially downcycle carbon fibers but I'm pretty sure in most places they'll just end up in the incinerator, or somewhere in nature.

dot20 , 10 months ago

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DarkThoughts , 10 months ago

Wow. You completely missed the point of my comment. Congrats for this achievement. I'm speaking out in favor of steel and aluminium frames and you come up with fucking gasoline. Wow. Just wow.

dot20 , 10 months ago

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DarkThoughts , 10 months ago

No one talked about cars but you, you dingus.

Drunemeton , 10 months ago

JFC lady pick a point to be outraged about and stick to it!

fubbernuckin , 10 months ago

She did. She’s just protesting alongside others who are protesting for different reasons.

Erk , 10 months ago

How frustrating, it’s far easier to dismiss them when they’re a faceless homogeneous mass.

Falmarri , 10 months ago

I kind of agree with you. Those points are so completely unrelated, it just makes the cause look stupid. Even if you agree with both causes.

grue , 10 months ago

What’s mildly infuriating…

No it’s not!

“White moderate” pearl-clutching is much more than “mildly” infuriating.

Michal , 10 months ago

Cycling is environmentally friendly, but let’s not equate world championship to cycling as transport. The event itself must have a lot carbon footprint. Still, weird choice of event to protest, but I can see them doing what they can to get the publicity they need.

woelkchen , 10 months ago

The event itself must have a lot carbon footprint.

Same is true for almost every form of entertainment but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the truly big polluters.

nal , 10 months ago

Sources of entertainment have - by definition - more viewers and attention than Exxon’s office building.

woelkchen , 10 months ago

Sources of entertainment have - by definition - more viewers and attention than Exxon’s office building.

I always find it odd when people claim that something is by definition. Whose definition?

Anyway, this event is promoting cycling and disrupting a cycling event does nothing to help further promoting any form of cycling.

Freeman , 10 months ago

I think its because of this: sh.itjust.works/comment/1915960

I guess big oil has nothing against cycling, as long as its the sport and not the mode of transport…

Thundernerd , 10 months ago

I find this so silly. I feel that all this does is make people mad instead of getting them aware and informed on what they’re protesting about.

pooperNickel , 10 months ago

So you’re advocating for people being so selfish that the death of a livable environment is secondary to being fully comfortable today?

Thundernerd , 10 months ago

Yes that is exactly what I’m saying. Not.

I want it to be brought to people’s attention, I want countries to take action. All I hear around me is that people who do this are seen as loonies, as idiots who don’t have anything better to do, which paints a bad picture for the cause they’re trying to bring attention to.

pooperNickel , 10 months ago

Oil companies love that you think any noticeable protest is crazy.

Thundernerd , 10 months ago

Stop alienating people. You’re most definitely not helping the cause either.

I also never said I think it is crazy. I find the way they’re going about it strange, sure, but if I have to choose between nothing happening or this then I’ll choose for this.

pooperNickel , 10 months ago

“I think this is so silly” isn’t alienating? Ok.

Thundernerd , 10 months ago

I indeed did not think that that is alienating. It might be because English is not my native tongue but thought the word silly didn’t have any negative connotations. If that is the case then my apologies for that. Do you have any suggestions which word I should’ve used? I could’ve gone for ‘strange’ or ‘weird’, but those are negative to me in this context.

I do wonder why you’re coming up against me with such a negative attitude. The way you’re writing your comments are full of blame already, even though you don’t know my stance. Just because I think the way protests like these go about it isn’t the best doesn’t mean I am the devil and I support oil companies and whatnot, that’s such a leap to make.

Especially your comment “Oil companies love that you think any noticeable protest is crazy.” is funny to me, because from my perspective YOUR comments are what oil companies love, you make me not want to associate with this subject at all.

hglman , 10 months ago

Maybe bc cycling fans will listen

dcat , 10 months ago

all this does is to make sure to alienate the cyclists who would actually listen.

hglman , 10 months ago

Mother fucker we all about to die from climate change and you worried about how it might make people feel bad.

Ashiette , 10 months ago

Cycling races are very polluting. Not because of the bikes but because of everything besides the bikes (cars, motocycles, cameras, plastic goodies, …)

Duke_Nukem_1990 , 10 months ago

Where did you get that it is environmental protestors?

JohnOliver , 10 months ago

cyclingnews.com/…/elite-mens-road-race-halted-by-…

Skyrocket0006 , 10 months ago

This is mildly infuriating but ruining the climate is very infuriating. So I understand the protesting and I hope we’re gonna see a good second half of the race.

supercheesecake , 10 months ago

When you’ve done everything that’s reasonable, and no one in power listens, so have to become unreasonable. And people say, why can’t you just be reasonable?! 😕

woelkchen , 10 months ago

When you’ve done everything that’s reasonable, and no one in power listens, so have to become unreasonable.

Get elected and become a person in power then.

notacat , 10 months ago

Because the corporations you are protesting are the ones who fund the campaigns necessary to get elected.

woelkchen , 10 months ago

Make enemies with everyone and make sure nobody outside the fossil fuel industry will want to fund your campaign either.

gmtom , 10 months ago

Holy shit, why didnt we think of this before!!!11!!

Hey! Everyone @woelkchen just solved climate change!!!

woelkchen , 10 months ago

Holy shit, why didnt we think of this before!!!11!!

Those glue fumes are bad for your brain.

Hey! Everyone @woelkchen just solved climate change!!!

That’s indeed a much better way to actually change anything than to glue yourself onto a bicycle track and make up stories about turning away trans viewers.

gmtom , 10 months ago

Yeah no shit sherlock, and it would be better still to not even get in power, but instead just wave your arms and magic away all the excess co2 in the atmosphere.

woelkchen , 10 months ago

just wave your arms and magic away all the excess co2 in the atmosphere.

Carbon capture is an actual thing, not magic and Shell is working on that, including two projects in Scotland: www.shell.com/…/carbon-capture-and-storage.html

BTW: The world’s biggest CO2 emitter is China with a third of all emissions.

gmtom , 10 months ago

Okay, I refuse to believe anyone is actually this stupid, so I’m just going to disengage.

lemann , 10 months ago

Why… just why?

fuser , 10 months ago

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeling_Curve

chart showing rising CO2 concentrations in earth’s atmosphere

sexy_peach , 10 months ago

So what is your plan instead?

Michal , 10 months ago

Interrupting motorsports may give then more sympathy.

kibiz0r , 10 months ago

They tried that. Reddit’s unanimous opinion was that they should’ve been run over.

woelkchen , 10 months ago

Interrupting motorsports may give then more sympathy.

Like when they glued themselves on a race track of Formula E electric racing because promoting emission free propulsion is apparently bad as well.

Michal , 10 months ago

Haha, haven’t heart about that. Sounds ridiculous!

woelkchen , 10 months ago

Not only is it ridiculous to protest the promotion of emission-free propulsion, it’s also accepting that their own people could be killed and bystanders traumatized for life.

But hey, those three or so people got their 30 seconds in the spotlight: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgekxYhO26s

steakmeout , 10 months ago

Cool. Now tell us all that Greta predicted the end of the world and yet we’re all still here.

woelkchen , 10 months ago

I don’t care about that nuclear power apologist.

CmdrShepard , 10 months ago

Emission free, eh? How was the electricity generated?

Aceticon , 10 months ago

It really depends on the energy generation mix on the country were they’re racing.

Electricity generation is however emitting less and less (as renewables become an ever larger fraction of it) which makes electric cars directly have less emissions all the while requiring no vehicle changes whatsoever, something not all possible with non-electric means of motorised transportation since the “generate the energy” directly in the vehicle so you need to upgrade the vehicle to improve the energy generation.

So yeah, that stuff is promoting emission free propulsion (already so today in some countries, certainly tomorrow in all), something which cannot be said of the other options.

It’s pretty stupid to go after the “not yet perfectly ecological” alternative when there are a ton of “outright anti-Ecological and will never be any better” ones to go after.