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Nanoose

Would you set yourself on fire to bring attention to the climate crisis?

On Friday a man died after he set himself on fire in front of the Supreme Court in an apparent Earth Day protest against climate change. Friends of the man are saying that it was a deeply fearless act of compassion to bring attention to climate crisis. I don't see and think it was an act of stupidly. Cheers!

Posted - April 25, 2022
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  • 7795
    There has got to be a million different ways to bring enlightenment to the climate crisis that doesn't involve me in lighting my a** on fire.
      April 25, 2022 9:37 AM MDT
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  • 11154
    There is a million better ways to bring enlightenment to the climate crisis. I think the guy actually hurt the climate - he used gas to set him self on fire , the chopper that air lifted him used fuel and there were probably 50 cop cars that used fuel on the scene. Cheers! This post was edited by Nanoose at April 26, 2022 7:48 AM MDT
      April 25, 2022 9:49 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    What a dumb thing to do.
      April 25, 2022 9:52 AM MDT
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  • 10663
    One more idiot gone. 

    Let's see....

    Climate crisis is caused from burning fossil fuels.  So to bring attention to the problem he "accelerated" the problem.   Now they have to clean up 
    his "carbon footprint" (and those footprints don't come out of a sidewalk easily).

    If he was trying to be the candle on earth's b-day cake... well, the earth got its wish.


      April 25, 2022 10:39 AM MDT
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  • 11154
    This is a bad joke but you would think that if he was going to set himself on fire to protest climate change he would of done it by solar power. Cheers!
      April 25, 2022 12:01 PM MDT
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  • 17614
    Culling the herd.  Where were all of the other compassionate sheep in this protest?
      April 25, 2022 12:05 PM MDT
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  • 7795
    Those “compassionate sheep” are hypocrites.
      April 25, 2022 12:13 PM MDT
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  • 3830
    No, for two reasons:  (1)  that's the dumbest thing in my opinion and (2) because that would add to the air pollution.
      April 25, 2022 12:38 PM MDT
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  • 44652
    He should be arrested for littering and unauthorized burning of waste.
      April 25, 2022 1:59 PM MDT
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