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   Simon Brooke (simon_brooke@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 17:23:38 JST Simon Brooke

   Destroying the planet we live on -- the only planet we can live on -- is of course totally legal and even supported and subsidised by governments around the world (including #Scotland's).

   But PROTESTING against destroying the planet? That's illegal. That's very, very illegal. Don't even think about doing that.

   #ClimateEmergency

   https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/23/alarm-as-german-climate-activists-charged-with-forming-a-criminal-organisation

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     Tom Ritchford (tomswirly@toot.community)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 20:30:50 JST Tom Ritchford

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     • SpaceJellyfish

     @SpaceJellyfish @simon_brooke

     Imagine this was an action movie, where a tiny number of psychopaths were systematically destroying the Earth, not even for goods and services, but simply to win a meaningless numerical game called The Money. These psychopaths control pretty well everything, so anyone opposing them gets crushed in horrible ways.

     Is "starting an information portal on the web" really going to be what defeats these incredibly powerful villains?

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     Tom Ritchford (tomswirly@toot.community)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 20:30:51 JST Tom Ritchford

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     • SpaceJellyfish

     @SpaceJellyfish @simon_brooke You are proposing exactly the same strategy that environmentalists have been doing for the last 60 years, a strategy that has utterly and completely failed.

     Civil disobedience has generations of success - it got women the vote, and got civil rights for people of color.

     I don't think it's too much, I think it's not enough.

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     SpaceJellyfish (spacejellyfish@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 20:30:52 JST SpaceJellyfish

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     @simon_brooke Instaed, use your enegry and presumably superior education than the right wing rabble to build - for example - information portals on the web, with content describing the outcome of the current path we take and backing information. There are already enough examples of what climate change does, and such content is very much missing on the web.