EcoGuerrillas Audiobook Excerpts -- Low Tech Podcast, No. 60
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- Low Tech Podcast, No. 60 - 02 Dec 2022
EcoGuerrillas Audiobook Excerpt
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In this episode we share a few excerpts from an audiobook germane to the institute’s ethos and mission.
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Songs are:
“Light at the End of the Tunnel” off of Forager, pt. 2 by Holizna (Pub. Dom.)
Did you hear about that sub station that got shot up in (South Carolina?) You write about a whole operation to blow up a transmission tower. Turns out you just need a rifle and a little knowledge of what to shoot to take out power to a town. Scary to think about.
Oh yes, of course. It happened outside of LA a few years ago, too. Later in the story other similarly vulnerable infrastructure is stopped just as easily. Most of the vulnerabilities are outlined in a publicly available DHS document: info.publicintelligence.net/DHS-Pipeline-CV.pdf
There's probably a new one of this. The best part is that they are cognizant of the fact that publishing this itself is a security risk... *facepalm*
Just listened on to your podcast. I was left wondering how much of this book do you advocate for in real life? Did you have your characters take the "extreme" view in order to make a point, or is this something that you wish would happen outside of your story?
Good question and the honest answer is I don't know. In the full book, the author's note mentions how I don't advocate for anything that would directly harm a person (e.g., destroying a building with people inside). I think plenty violence and destruction is being done when we DON'T take action, even if the "accident" is just seen as a part of life. For example, a company spilled toxins into a river in West Virginia, making the water undrinkable for 300,000 people (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Elk_River_chemical_spill). This happens all the time and no one is held accountable (in the Elk River case, the company declared bankruptcy and then the same people created a new company two months later). Companies and bad actors in real life right now do more damage than the characters in the book, and the actions here would make it impossible for these groups to continue doing so.
I don't know if I'd really want it to happen, just because of the great unknowns that come with such a radical change. It would be much better if we all decided to just make the changes we need right now to stop using fossil fuels in the next 3-5 years. That'd be radical enough, but with time to transition more smoothly than the catastrophic change the characters try to bring about. But I hold out little hope that anything that proactive would actually happen.