Hypocrisy, thy name is liberal democracy?
Civilisation référence, yes!
It’s not even limited to climate. Sweden is heading for some extreme anti free speech where a university banned expressing “any political opinion which could be understood by a passer by.” They had to retract it, but the minister of education were on the side of the university.
keep making them roll the dice
The never ending cycle of rich countries grandstanding and shaming poor countries into tough regulations, green initiatives, environment preservation to slow down their progress in every sector after benefiting off of massive scale no-consequence exploitation of their own.
It’s not just democracies ramping up policing efforts and handing out unnecessarily punishing sentences to protesters. The world seems to have become more hostile since the pandemic took our economies for a tumble. On a societal level it makes sense that government institutions are clamping down on civil disobedience at the same time that disobedience is ramping up because of economic/social/climate/everything else problems
Sounds logical in theory, but in practice one blocking a road gets the same jailtime as a minor abuser.
It just goes to show how car-supremacist the court system is.
There’s been a sustained effort by fossil fuel lobby groups to clamp down on this sort of thing and bribe governments into handing out grossly disproportional sentences.
Which is a pretty clear sign that those protests are working.
