Trespassing, that’s funny. That was all Native land before we stole it.
Get off your high horse. It was land that was at one point occupied by native peoples of this continent, but not anymore, so it’s a moot point. If you feel so strongly about it why don’t you leave your house and move back to Europe.
I’ve thought about it.
Anyway, the thing is that the trespassing was just civil disobedience. The private property isn’t someone’s backyard or something, it’s owned by the oil company and is where the tribe considers ancestral land. If they weren’t protesting there, they wouldn’t be protesting at all. Saying the protesters were trespassing as if they were some hooligans so that negates the protest is missing the point entirely.
And I suppose you don’t realize that oil is an important resource that is necessary despite it’s environmental affects. And I also suppose that you haven’t heard about the trouble the oil companies have been having without that pipeline.
I am well aware of the current importance of oil and the trouble we’ve had. All the more reason we need to stop relying on it and start looking for more sustainable sources of energy.
Like I said, we can’t just “stop relying on it.”
Yeah but it’s not like we’re in Mad Max right now and the pipeline is the only thing keeping our cars running. The sooner we move forward with other sources of energy, the better.