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I'm not totally sure to be honest. I don't have a good solution. People need to be pissed for protests to work. But let's say you convince someone to sell their SUV and get a smaller car That SUV already exists. Probably will sell it to afford the next thing, right? Someone is still driving the thing. There's a carbon cost to The replacement car. My understanding is it's usually best to drive your vehicle for as long as possible (buying an electric car when your current car is fine is worse than just waiting until your current car breaks down, then eventually replacing it). Targeting your protests or energy toward policy change for future vehicle production might be more effective? Again, I don't know.

The golf course one is interrupting a leisure activity, rather than stopping someone's ability to go to work and provide for their family.

But if people came out to go to work and their car has the air let out of the tires, it's going to feel more personally malicious I think, which seems like it could alienate people. Being stuck in traffic because of a protest, well, at least you're stuck as a group?

It is a fine line, to be sure, I'm just not sure where to draw it.

The consumer is a large part of the problem, though. People want these types of cars and not because they are better at what they are supposed to do.

Regardless of that I don't think this is a good way to protest.

For example I’d love to buy an electric car but they’re just far too expensive for me to be able to afford. I need something, so I get a cheap and 2nd hand car. Inevitably that is an ICE because even second-hand electrics are hugely expensive. Yet somehow I’m the one targeted?

I think the goal is to target people with huge, luxury cars. Anything else doesn't make sense at all.