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Tesla Cybertruck gets vandalized by climate activists (electrek.co)
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[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 130 points 4 months ago (12 children)

The Cybertruck weighs almost three tons, so its enormous weight means it consumes an absurdly high amount of energy. Senseless waste that we as a society cannot afford. Add to that the sharp-edged construction: a safety disaster. The truck perfectly illustrates where the anti-social policies of the last few decades have led us: a few rich people drive well-armored into the disaster – and take everyone with them.

-Hendrik Fauer, one of the activists

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago (10 children)

At least it is electric. Throw the paint on a Dodge Ram 3500 that dwarfs the Cyber truck AND burns oil.

This is like protesting at a small free range chicken farm when there's an industrial chicken farm right next door.

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 48 points 4 months ago

There's validity in going after something that specifically symbolizes Elon rather than a random gas guzzler. Though electric cars are (debatably) less harmful than regular ones, Elon has done a lot of work in setting back even better solutions by promoting them over things like trains.

Also he sucks for a million other reasons but he's definitely a sort of wolf in sheep's clothing when it comes to environmentalism.

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