tl;dr: things are bad, things will get worse, be angry at the criminals, not those sounding the alarm

We've known what we're in for for half a century, meanwhile governments have kept catering to fossil industries. What's being destroyed by governmental inaction dwarfs that what you accuse these groups of (art has not been destroyed) and at this point I'm not surprised that people are looking to more disruptive and direct action.

We've had scientists do the researching and informing, public interest groups do litigation, NGOs trying what they can themselves, etc, yet we're still headed to a degree of climate destabilization where large ecosystem tipping points may well launch us into uncharted territory - and even if not, we're already past the point of 'dangerous' climate change and that's something we'll have to bear the human, societal and economic costs for.

Okami! Please, more!

“I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer, 'cause you guys paid for all this. So seriously, for every Amazon customer out there, and every Amazon employee, thank you from the bottom of my heart, very much. It's very appreciated.”

~ Jeff Bezos, July 2021, as he departs for space tourism

It did happen: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy

Windows 2.1 in a VM on Linux viewed over Spice in an SSH-forwarded X11 session running on WSL2 with XWayland forwarded over RDP to a Windows 11 desktop: https://deskto.ps/u/sjmulder/d/fztjse

I don't avoid those products. Vegan products from factories or production lines that are also being used to processed animal products do not cause harm to animals - the other products did.

With fossil giants continuing to endanger our very civilisation and governments cracking down on not them but on non-violent activists, what are they expecting to happen next?

How does that work? There’s already shops, dentists, etc in many residential neighbourhoods in the UK, no?

Protests are allowed and expected to cause inconvenience, protestors are under no obligation to minimise inconvenience, and inconvenience is not legal ground for a mayor to limit or ban a protest.

It’s the mayor’s choice to mass arrest people and send in water cannons. He could have facilitated the protes, in fact the the government is by law obligated to attempt to facilitate protests in the way the protestors intend to have them.

It’s telling that the prosecutor doesn’t even attempt to charge those arrested - they write on their own website that judges have ruled these protests to be peaceful and orderly.

Be aware that street blockade are not, as a rule, categorically excluded as a valid way of protesting and that this stretch to road is not in fact a highway - a sign says a much and the speed limit is 50km/h. There are traffic lights at both ends and detours are just a few 100 meters.

Furthermore the public prosecutor doesn’t charge the protestors because judges have ruled repeatedly that these are peaceful and orderly protests and hence people are acquitted or not sentenced.

Dezelfde Jumbo die (filiaal hier iig) aan loondiefstal doet door te eisen dat werknemers 10 of 15 minuten van tevoren aanwezig zijn en achteraf laten wachten voor men mag vertrekken? Geen mooie schijn dit.