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"Climate activists are under increasing pressure in Europe, Michel Forst, the UN special rapporteur on Environmental Defenders, told Lusa on Monday while expressing his surprise at the violence with which some governments treat them."
"I don’t understand why, but the fact is that more and more politicians in more countries are comparing people who are actually peaceful demonstrators with violent terrorists”.
@W_Lucht "I don't understand why..."
#NoTav #FridaysForFuture
@W_Lucht That's especially true in France.
The politicians work for the fossil industry, not the people. Simple as that.
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I'm going to read this now but first, the why:
People are threatening the petrol industry with actions that could lead to its extinction for good reason - because it's necessary for our survival. The owners aren't used to people affecting their assets this way and they've already invested a lot into controlling how other people interact with them based on the value of these "resources" at their command.
From the perspective of an oil magnate (whose thoughts will matter entirely too much to most elected officials):
Destroy or threaten capital? That's violence.
Proving that humanity will die in a fireball of our own creation? That's politics.
Attempting to use violence (harming capital) to gain a political outcome (not cooking the planet): That's terrorism.
It's tortured logic to most but not for the people pulling levers.
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I like that he's advocating for educating the judiciary. Making it very public so everyone should expect that people engaging in civil disobedience should not be punished is a great idea.
Let's stop criminalizing the work to save humanity from our own destruction.
Let's support our planet defenders.
@W_Lucht The reason is that capital accumulation has depended upon exploitation of stored energy in hydrocarbons at least as much as exploitation of labor. Oil is the basis of their power. They will not give it up willingly.