‘Astronomical costs’ is no justification for jailing the Heathrow 13 protesters | Andrew Simms
by Andrew Simms from on (#139NY)
It's a perverse system that punishes peaceful activists while rewarding those who caused the banks to fail - economic sins that cost millions more than the inconvenience of a group of climate campaigners
With rare certainty we now know in advance the actual day on which an important climate threshold will be passed. It's not a new temperature rise, or the calving of another Manhattan-sized chunk of glacial ice in Greenland, but the likely jailing on 24 February of 13 climate campaigners who staged a protest against aviation expansion at Heathrow airport.
