* In Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, the [104]Netherlands and the UK, authorities have responded to climate protests with mass arrests, the passing of draconian new laws, the imposing of severe sentences for non-violent protests and the labeling of activists as hooligans, saboteurs or eco-terrorists.*

They seem to be confused about where the real threat comes from. The protesters do not threaten to destroy civilization and cause a mass extinction; that threat comes from the businesses that insist on continuing to cause the danger and the politicians that refuse to stop them.

If the politicians carried out their responsibility to make those businesses stop roasting the Earth, the protesters wouldn't need to undertake to campaign for them to do it.

When politicians call climate defense protesters "selfish", they are saying the opposite of the truth, denying deny the danger that global heating poses to all of us and the virtue of trying to save civilization from disaster. In effect, they declare allegiance to the planet-roaster side.

*How criminalization is being used to silence climate activists across the world.*