Oddbean

"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”. https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/un-rapporteur-climate-activists-in-europe-under-increasing-pressure/

@874e0e3e It's actually very easy to understand: The fossil fuel corporations make large "donations" to the political parties (most if not all of the various parties, you can see them on the parties official donation ledgers, this is happening globally), therefore those political parties feel obligated to act in the corporations best interests.. Only by passing a law banning political donations will this ever change, then the politicians will stop protecting the fossil fuel industry and start doing the right thing for once as they will no longer be obligated to act on their behalf.