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Just Stop Oil protester, 78, has jail term extended after no suitable tag found
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this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2025
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Why do you allow corporations to keep polluting the world? If you allow that sort of behavior then by your own admittance I can come and build a coal plant in your living room.
Corporations are acting within the law, admittedly that law might not be fit for purpose but it is still the law. The disruption is unlawful and a different category of thing, you can not allow some unlawful acts and frown on others.
Laws are man-made. Intentionally created to benefit the wealthy regardless of consequences. Facts about climate change have been around for decades but the laws haven't changed. The only way to make change is to be disruptive otherwise the only other option is removing the blight from the planet which most people don't want to participate in. I'd much rather people make the right choices than force me to protest or kill people who refuse to change in the face of facts.
The corporations and the nations allowing them to do so are not acting lawful. They are violating the Paris agreement. In many (almost all) countries, the protection of the environment is also a constitutional right. That's violated. The European court of Human rights has also ruled that climate action is a human right.
International law, constitution, and human rights are some of the most important laws that we, as a civilization and society, have.
Might doesn't make right, no, but what exactly do you think rule of law is when it doesn't represent the will or the welfare of the people? The people you're complaining about carried signs and disrupted traffic. The people who stopped them were armed and had the force of the law behind their actions.