Protester sets himself on fire at 02 Arena tennis tournament in protest against private jets

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  1. In before all the degrading comments on this specific individual:

    We are in an absolute crisis regarding CO2 emissions and our government is actively making it worse. Flying, and private jets particularly, releases insane amounts of carbon and the majority of this comes from frequent travel by elites – our politicians, celebrities, business owners and, yes, tennis players. These actions are absolutely more harmful than any bs accusation you might want to throw at this man.

    Props to him for having the balls to do something. Someone needs to.

  2. I haven’t seen the footage. Did he say something like “I protest this and I set myself aflame in the name of ow ow ow that really hurts THAT REALLY HURTS I IMMEDIATELY REGRET THIS!”

  3. I was in the arena for this moment, we had no idea what his cause was. We couldn’t see the T-shirt and he didn’t shout anything, we found it out from Twitter later. The court was completely undamaged by the fire, so he just cause a few extra minutes on the player’s break.

    The real question to us was how did he get lighter fluid in when we couldn’t even take a bottle of water through security.

  4. Even if all private jet use was eliminated tomorrow it would make fuck-all difference. It’s an infinitesimal percentage of global emissions, there’s just not very many of them. What a fucking stupid thing to set yourself on fire for.

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