https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/sep/10/climate-rights-report-draconian-measures-protest
Report says governments in global north increasingly using draconian measures while criticising similar tactics in global south
Hypocrisy, thy name is liberal democracy?
It's not even limited to climate. Sweden is heading for some extreme anti free speech where a university banned expressing "any political opinion which could be understood by a passer by." They had to retract it, but the minister of education were on the side of the university.
It's not just democracies ramping up policing efforts and handing out unnecessarily punishing sentences to protesters. The world seems to have become more hostile since the pandemic took our economies for a tumble. On a societal level it makes sense that government institutions are clamping down on civil disobedience at the same time that disobedience is ramping up because of economic/social/climate/everything else problems
There's been a sustained effort by fossil fuel lobby groups to clamp down on this sort of thing and bribe governments into handing out grossly disproportional sentences.
The never ending cycle of rich countries grandstanding and shaming poor countries into tough regulations, green initiatives, environment preservation to slow down their progress in every sector after benefiting off of massive scale no-consequence exploitation of their own.
