Europe Cracks Down on 'Direct Action' Climate Protests

Establishment-critical narrative

These anti-protesting laws and actions are an alarming overreaction by the state and suggest a distressing slide toward authoritarianism. Targeting non-violent actors with the same vitriol authorities use to address organized crime and terrorism is not only ridiculous, it's horrifying. Instead of addressing the threat of climate change, European countries have turned into surveillance states.