• Nonameuser678@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    In Australia we’ve just essentially criminalised climate protesting. Climate protestors now risk a huge fine and even jail time. A lot of people suspect it’s because governments are preparing in advance for what might become a huge movement that they can’t control. So they’re trying to disincentivise people before shit hits the fan.

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      1 year ago

      That sounds about right. Sadly for them, no manner of law is going to stop the mobs when people start going hungry.

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      I went to a climate protest in Canada last week and it was way to tame to actually get anything accomplished.

      The main part of the protest was walking down a main artery. For protesters, there is incentive to walk slowly and spread out to make the walk longer and disrupt status-quo longer, but the organizers clearly only had permission to march for a specific duration so they were in the back hurrying people forward so we’d stay within our allotted time window. Maybe 30 minutes. Once a year. It was pointless.

      Add to that that 90% of the people there were exactly the people you’d expect to be there and it just felt like a waste of time.