How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)
Ariela Barer: Xochitl
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Xochitl : If we want to survive, we must damage and dismantle CO2-emitting devices, demolish them, burn them, blow them up. Let those who profit from mass death know their properties will be trashed. They will defame us and claim this was violence or vandalism, but this was justified. This was an act of self-defense.
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Shawn : A refinery? No!
Xochitl : Why?
Shawn : What do you mean, "why"? It's way too big. We could end up killing somebody or causing an ecological disaster.
Xochitl : Sabotage is messy.
Shawn : Yeah, but we can't give the public a reason to invalidate us. What about... destroying, like, a coal truck route or damaging roads or...
Xochitl : That's lame. We have to do something that would scare people.
Shawn : What? Do you want to, like, kidnap an oil exec or blow up a private jet. What?
Xochitl : We have to show how vulnerable the oil industry is, by hitting something big, like a refinery.
Shawn : What about Texas? That's where they set oil price benchmarks. If we cut off their supply or destroyed something even relatively small, it would really disrupt shit.
Xochitl : What do you know about Texas?
Shawn : I mean, what do you know about building a bomb?
