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Deal with issue to end protests

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Vincent
Published date09 March 2024
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
All of the nations inspected are party to the Aarhus convention, which states that peaceful environmental protest is a legitimate exercise of the public's right to participate in decisionmaking and that those engaged in it must be protected

But Forst said that across Europe, the response to peaceful environmental protest was to repress rather than to enable and protect. "The environmental emergency that we are collectively facing and that scientists have been documenting for decades cannot be addressed if those raising the alarm and demanding action are criminalised for it," he said.

This reinforces what we in the UK have seen develop over recent decades. Rather than listen to what ordinary people and scientists are saying and acting on it, politicians either ignore or greenwash. When protests become louder politicians make out the protests are the problem and move to criminalise them, rather than sort...

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