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Just Stop Oil: do radical protests turn the public away from a cause? Here’s the evidence
(theconversation.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2024
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It does kinda make sense
I am not in favor of this tactic (nor of blocking random-commuter roads) but I would never dream of saying “okay that’s it, because that happened I have now decided that climate change is not important anymore.” I cannot imagine any too significant amount of the public operates that way.