Anyway, transit and metabolic transmissions aside, what is your response to the below point? This is where I think your original comment about the reconstruction wasting resources really breaks down:
Isn’t it small thinking to worry about the pollution caused by the pipeline’s construction, when the pipeline itself is going to facilitate millions of times more pollution once it’s operational?
I don’t think you responded to the economic war of attrition angle, either. Making fossil fuel infrastructure projects as costly as possible to start, and risky to operate, is a direct attack on fossil fuel hegemony, since the only reason we do it is it’s cheaper and we are set up for it to be efficient. Also regular people need to feel the pinch at the pump to change their habits, which is a smaller but still valid goal.
It sounds like some people are willing to go to jail to monkeywrench the fossil fuel industry on a grand scale. I say more power to ‘em.