On Sunday, a large number of climate change activists blocked the road leading to the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada.
On the opposite side was a pickup vehicle containing irate law enforcement officers who were responding to a miles-long traffic jam.
As evidenced by FreedomNews.tv’s social media videos, there was absolutely no competition.
According to the Daily Mail, Rangers from the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police Department drove directly through the blockade.
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#BREAKING "I'm gonna take all of you out!" – Nevada Rangers ram through climate protest blockade, point a gun at an activists as they smash them onto the ground for arrest after group @7seven_circles shut down BURNING MAN
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As evidenced by the videos, once the blockade was removed, the demonstrators lost their resolve and began to complain and cry as tribal rangers ordered them to the ground.
According to the New York Post, the protestors were charged with trespassing on tribal territory by the police.
Video of the traffic backed up on Nevada freeway leading to #BurningMan after climate Protesters blocked the road pic.twitter.com/YxCdWBEpsh
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Prior to the blockade’s dramatic conclusion, drivers and demonstrators had argued, with some drivers attempting to force the barricade from the road.
A female demonstrator who had chained herself to the trailer obstructing the road shouted, “Hey, you’re hurting me.”
“Well you chained yourself to it,” a man trying to move the barrier said.
A woman also irked with the protesters called the tactic a “dumb-a** move.”
Burning Man SHUT DOWN by Climate activists, people stuck in traffic shove and remove blockade with activists chained to it – NEVADA #BurningMan pic.twitter.com/zVvw17TuS8
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According to the Post, the protesters were members of Seven Circles.
The group claimed the protest was meant to shine a spotlight on “capitalism’s inability to address climate’s ecological breakdown” and to combat the “popularization of Burning Man among affluent people who do not live the stated values of Burning Man, resulting in the commodification of the event,” the report said.
Seven Circles claimed the festival’s actions are “detrimental to its claimed values, especially as carbon emissions continue to rise despite government and corporate commitments to reduce carbon emissions by more than half by 2030.”
“We do not have a climate problem, the climate is behaving exactly in line with the laws of physics,” Thomas Diocano, co-founder of Rave Revolution, said in a statement, according to the Post. “We have an economic system problem, and that economic system is capitalism.
“History shows that capitalism cannot be reformed. It cannot be changed from the ‘inside,’” he said. “Are we really ready to sacrifice everything for an outdated, unequal economic system?
“The time to evolve has come.”