• Daniel Quinn@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    It doesn’t have to be environmentally damaging. Years ago there was a group called “valve turners” who just closed emergency shut off valves all over the place.

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      1 year ago

      I agree but I also wouldn’t call something like that terrorism either. Turning a valve can be reversed in seconds, some sort of destructive sabotage could take months to repair.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah, let’s spark up a welder next to a gas pipeline. Maybe we’ll go smoke at a gas pump or oil the brakes on my car too.

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          1 year ago

          Now we’ve gone from seconds to fix to hours to fix. If you wanted better I’d say to target pumping stations. If you could cause some serious damage to the pumps that push the oil, you could take the entire line out of commission for a good long while.

          Of course, the pumping stations are guarded, and it isn’t a good look for ecoterrorists to kill people. But maybe you could pull a Stuxnet.