UK Arrests Climate Activist Under Terrorism Act
Deutsche Welle reports Greta Thunberg's arrest under the UK's Terrorism Act for protesting outside an oil and gas conference. Instead of addressing the corporations actively driving planetary collapse—whose 'lobbying' funds flow freely—authorities target those highlighting the crisis. This 'Terrorism Act' seems selectively applied, missing actual terrorists funding deforestation and pollution. One
might wonder if the real 'threat' isn't a young woman with a placard, but the uninterrupted profit margins of industries dismantling our future. It certainly puts those record profits from fossil fuel companies into perspective when their detractors are booked under statutes usually reserved for literal bombs, not inconvenient truths.