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quote:There are many people who believe the fuel and inspection taxes are the right way to encourage people to purchase more fuel-efficient cars. If we keep doing this, said a friend pointing to a car belching black soot, our children won’t be able to breathe unfiltered air by the time they’re our age. Ordinary French counter they’d love to buy hybrids or electric cars but the vast majority of people can’t afford new cars, despite government subsidies, or they wouldn’t be driving decade-old jalopies. putting the onus and financial pressure for climate change on the poor is gross as gently caress
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Catboy Autonomist posted:Japan isn't exactly "western" but in the late 1960s the government seized the land of a bunch of local farmers to build an airport, and then they formed an alliance with New Left students and spent decades fighting the government with them and although the airport was eventually opened after years of delays (including one case where protestors barricaded themselves in the control tower and then proceeded to destroy all their loving equipment), its still only a third of the size originally planned and you had to present legal ID to enter for security reasons until just 2010 I've looked at a lot of these airport protests (2 in Canada in particular) and the pushback against airport projects often relied on a sometime tenuous alliance between farmers and activists. Narita is probably the most bloody, the airport near Nantes that spawned Zone a Defendre is probably one of the longest running. The Thames Estuary airport did spawn some pretty incredible protests in Britain like Over Our Dead Bodies.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POH14-HMGFc
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V. Illych L. posted:pre-2008 it's hard to really judge politicians for succombing to some measure of neoliberalism - my sense from mitterand is that he did try, but he wasn't able to maneuver away from the apparent iron laws of the day; in retrospect, the euro in particular was a really bad idea. jospin, of course, is mainly notable for getting owned by le pen so lol gently caress that guy. mandela in the early 90s was really sad. he'd talk about nationalizing this industry or that and his keepers would just sweep him up and issue a "clarification"
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