“If you believe a few people sitting in the street is a major impediment to traffic, take a look at what a sea surge, a flash flood, a windstorm or a rail-buckling, road-melting, bridge-jamming heat event can do to transport infrastructure.” George Monbiot nails it on the draconian sentences for climate protesters in the UK www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/19/protest-democracy-labour-tories-laws