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41 " People don’t need yachts – they want yachts’, in the words of a CEO of a top superyacht manufacturer. "
― Andreas Malm , How to Blow Up a Pipeline
42 " If we cannot even get rid of the most preposterously unnecessary emissions, how are we going to begin moving towards zero? "
43 " non-violence is not to be treated as a holy covenant or rite, then one must adopt the explicitly anti-Gandhian position of Mandela: ‘I called for non-violent protest for as long as it was effective’, as ‘a tactic that should be abandoned when it no longer worked. "
44 " If SUV drivers were a nation, in 2018 they would have ranked seventh for CO2 emissions. "
45 " Do we conclude that the only thing left is learning to die – a position already propounded by some – and slide down the side of the crater into three, four, eight degrees of warming? Or is there another phase, beyond peaceful protest? "
46 " People wielding that axe have always been told that we’re fucked, we’re doomed, we should just try to scrape by, nothing will ever change for the better; from the slave barracks to the Judenräte and onwards, every revolt has been discouraged by the elders of defeatism. "
47 " In the ghettos, as in the extermination camps to which they were the antechamber, the résistants embarked on a race against death. To struggle and resist was the only lucid choice, but this most often meant for the fighters no more than choosing the time and manner of their death. Beyond the immediate outcome of the struggle, which most often was inevitable, their combat was for history, for memory "
48 " Not only do the rich make our lives miserable, they are working to terminate the lives of multitudes. "
49 " Isn’t suffering unearned by the victims precisely what is so morally repugnant about the unfolding crisis? If so, why make it a virtue? "
50 " And then there are the events of more recent history, beginning with the victory over apartheid, an analogy particularly popular in conjunction with divestment. ‘Just as apartheid was the moral issue’ of the late twentieth century, ‘climate change is the moral issue of our time’, McKibben has said, alluding to suffering in non-white peripheries of the world, and ‘the same kind of tactic is what’s necessary to face it’. "
51 " The oil being taken out of the ground and the machinery that does it and the infrastructure which supports it – this is violent’, "
52 " Martin Luther King – his moral compass a wonder of reliability next to Gandhi’s – endorsed this distinction in his apologia for the urban riots of 1967: ‘Violent they certainly were. But the violence, to a startling degree, was focused against property rather than against people’, "
53 " The anti-slavery movement only took off once white people in Europe and America began to see people of African descent not as property but as people. "
54 " Talk! Talk! Talk!’ he exclaimed after yet another convention of a pacifist abolitionist society. ‘That will never free the slaves! What is needed is action – action. "
55 " Precisely the hopelessness of the situation constituted the nobility of this resistance. "
56 " Gandhi’s strategy for national liberation never – this is true – condoned violence against the British, but it did include violence with them. "