Unless you live in the snow, desert, or on a farm, you don't need a two ton tank. Urban SUVS accelerate climate change, are a danger to cyclists & pedestrians and increase traffic congestion, as well as being conspicuous consumption.
Large Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) and 4x4s are more polluting, more expensive and more dangerous to other road users, yet they are fast becoming the norm in the UK. Pushed by carmakers and their advertisers, who get higher profits from bigger cars, and facilitated by a lack of action from governments, bigger, heavier cars are taking over our streets, holding […]
Tyre Extinguishers group stencils ‘These cars kill Valencians’ on 4x4s in city to highlight SUVs’ role in climate crisis https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/04/edinburgh-activists-tyre-extinguishers-target-suvs-in-solidarity-with-spains-flood-victims
(The usual complete missing of the point by the BBC – letting tyres down doesn’t destroy them) “A man living in Clifton, Bristol, said he saw his Tesla’s tyres were deflated when he went out to walk his dog. On the windscreen he found a leaflet saying “your gas guzzler kills” and other cars were […]
A letter was left on the vehicle referring to the tragedy in London where two children died after a 4×4 crashed into a school. https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dundee/4553773/range-rover-vandalised-in-broughty-ferry-with-neighbours-threatened-will-it-be-your-suv-next-next/
Guerrilla climate activists Tyre Extinguishers have claimed their “largest ever night of action against SUVs”, with 900 of the vehicles targeted around the world. “Last night (the evening of Monday 28 November and early morning of Tuesday 29 November), citizens in eight countries deflated tyres on nearly 900 polluting SUVs,” the activist group said in […]
Climate activists have hacked billboards as part of an international protest against car adverts. Billboards in Easton and St Werburghs in Bristol have been replaced with spoof adverts targeting car companies. The Brandalism group claimed the hacking and local activists are calling for Bristol City Council to cut air pollution by restricting car adverts. http://brandalism.ch/ […]
Nearly a dozen cars have been damaged by environmental protestors, who have spray-painted phrases like “climate criminal” on them. Avon and Somerset Police said it was investigating 11 reports of criminal damage to SUVs in Clifton, Bristol. It’s the second time climate protestors have damaged cars in Bristol – around 60 had their tyres let down […]