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  1. servesociety on

    Ruined their lives for “a campaign for a treaty to end the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030.”

    Which would be a complete disaster anyway.

  2. 5FabulousWeeks on

    Just a bit of japes before heading off to work for daddy’s asset management firm.

  3. Additional_Week_3980 on

    I wish I could see an ‘after sentencing’ pic for bottom right.

  4. Less trying to disrupt economic activity and more getting mad at the people who are frustrating planning applications. Protesting to disencumber corporate power would actually be more beneficial. Think of al the solar farms and windfarms that have been tied up. Look at East Pye solar farm and Y Bryn Wind Farm. In the former, Island Green Power Ltd, the company that is trying to ~~mak~~e grub some money by… expanding the UK’s acces to clean electricity is being frustrated by NIMBY locals who fail to realise that their “love of the environment” means stopping something meant to fight global warming. In the latter, Coriolis Energy is or was getting frustrated by inconsiderate locals who have no udnerstanding of causality, that is to say, they can’t link cause and effect. They do believe climate change is real, but what they fail to understand is how their actions are making it worse, that their refusal to just let Coriolis Energy build means Britain is more dependent on fossil fuels than she should be.

    And yes, I have to do this, because this is being honest. it is putting the blame where it lies. I don’t really like business, they are a bunch of money grubbing bastards. It is also true that sometimes, just sometimes, they aren’t to blame.

  5. TropicalGoth77 on

    Our nation needs to get past its obsession with jailing people for non-violent crimes. The whole system is collapsing because we are locking up people that pose no threat to society. There are more suitable ways to punish.

  6. willington123 on

    I’m not one for conspiracies, but I could be easily convinced that JSO are entirely funded by big oil to make anti-oil protestors look mad.

    I mean there’s no way Indigo Rumbelow is a real name.

  7. I thought JSO had declared victory a while back? Seems bizarre to keep campaigning after victory.

  8. Ridiculous. We do more to go after climate protests than actually take climate action.

    It’s like getting more annoyed at the fire alarm than the actual fire thet is raging in your house.

  9. LordChristoff on

    Surely they don’t need to? Manchester airport disrupts itself anyway?

  10. Known-Reporter3121 on

    So sad these people are such easily manipulated into ruining their lives for a failed publicity stunt

  11. StandardNerd92 on

    I swear these guys are funded by big oil just to discredit the eco movement

  12. Very clear message being sent here – might as well have an actual riot or something because you’ll get the same amount of jail time anyway.

  13. Ok so I saw the thumbnail before I read the tutle of the post… immediately I knew that they were likely from a privilege background rather than, sorry, the more typical individual in a kug who who tends to be from a lower socio economic background. I know, massive greneralisation, but its probably a fact. So, serious question: what is it about the faces that makes them seem privileged. Obviously we are all human being with faces the characteristics of which are largely down to the obvious: age sex gender. But how can you see a wealthy background. What is it that ny brain saw? X

  14. Norfhynorfh on

    I just knew there was going to be a septum piercing on atleast one of them.

  15. Millefeuille-coil on

    Three look like they’ve done magic mushrooms and bottom left looks like she should do some.

  16. You do need a serious deterrent to prevent people disrupting strategic national infrastructure like hub airports. I’m not sure why community service and a suspended sentence wouldn’t do the job in this case, though.

  17. SatisfactionUsual848 on

    Some smug looking assholes there. Imagine going to jail for failing to even get to a protest.

  18. TeutonicPlate on

    No hope for this country if these comments are representative of broader public sentiment. Just comment after comment with no sympathy for these activists. Most of the comments saying how “privileged” they look.

    In 30 years you’ll all be in your 50s moaning about climate refugees and how we can’t let them in after the world’s liberal governments continued to procrastinate for decades due to zero public pressure to do anything else.