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Cars tagged with slogans shaming owners
Cars in a north Bristol neighbourhood have been tagged with slogans shaming their owners as ‘climate criminals’.
The tags, another which reads ‘this machine kills kids’, have appeared on several vehicles in Clifton, including a 4×4 and SUV.
The damage has triggered a vociferous debate on Reddit, with images posted attracting hundreds of comments from angry local residents as well as supporters of the vandalism.
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“There are three huge SUVs in this one picture on a single directional, inner-city road. I struggle to sympathise tbh,” one Reddit user wrote.
Another said: “It’s not just pollution. SUVs and other large vehicles have massive blindspots that make it hard for the driver to see non-adult sized people.
“Child deaths as the result of being hit by a car have increased everywhere, directly in line with increases in large vehicle / SUV purchases.”
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Some social media users were less understanding, with one writing “by no means am I a supporter of these massive SUV’s etc, but I just don’t see what this actually achieves.”
Another added: “I am in shock that people are for this, it’s someone’s property; no one should be touching someone else’s car, bike, scooter, horse – whatever regardless of whether we like it or not.”
SUVs in Clifton has been previously targeted by climate activists who call themselves the Tyre Extinguishers and default tyres with dried lentils.
The group wants the government and local authorities to introduce pollution levies to tax SUVs out of existence and ban on SUV ownership in urban areas. In late February, the Tyre Extinguishers deflated the tyres of 80 SUVs in the area.
The continued global rise in sales of SUVs has pushed their climate-heating emissions to almost 1bn tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2022, according to the International Energy Agency.
Main photo: Reddit
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