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by 1ris 1326 days ago
It's like telling people you are burning a puppy with napalm "for demonstrating the effect" at an anti-viet-nam-war-protests. First people get crazy angry at you, then they change their attitude about napalm.
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Perhaps. But convincing the military to replace napalm with a variety of other weapons - also designed to hellishly maim and kill people - is not exactly a huge moral victory, nor a big defeat for them.

Vs. the big oil companies, culture-war conservatives, etc. might be considerably more invested in giving little ground on climate change.