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120% on board with this. why can all these woke celebrities and politicians tell me I cant buy the car i want but they pollute the equivalent to 2000 people a year each.

maybe they should be first to make a “sacrificel

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> celebrities and politicians tell me I cant buy the car I want

What are you talking about? When has someone told you you cannot buy the car you want?

regulations which ban them from being made

In the past we used to make the sacrifice ourselves, by throwing such beautifully perfect people into a volcano or similar.

The book Ministry for the Future has a melange of ideas in the plot, one of which is a world wide terrorist movement against environmental destruction that uses drones to crash every private plane with extremely rich people on one day to discourage their usage, it's sort of a variation on the Unabomber and 9/11. It seems like it would require wide ranging conspiracy that it would be infeasible, things would have to be really bad environment wise but at the same time there would be enough capital and people in the movement to support a large scale coordinated attack, there are so many ideas thrown in there that this part is not really explored that much in the book after building up the rationale behind the movement.

Or one ecoterrorist able to play a long game slips a backdoor into a widely-bought drone's software.

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