The chief official of New South Wales, of the extractivist Liberal party (like the just-defeated prime minister), calls climate defense protesters "bloody idiots" for practicing civil disobedience tactics that call attention to the danger of his policies.

It is possible for civil disobedience tactics to backfire.

However, when it's an enemy of the cause that says so, you shouldn't listen. Just as Putin keeps saying "Ukraine will be destroyed," planet-roaster Perrottet says, "Your protests are self-defeating," hoping they will give up and cease to oppose him.