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"A new study published this month in the journal
Environmental Politics
reveals that efforts to repress climate and environmental protest are growing
worldwide through a combination of new legislation, novel uses of existing
legal processes, police actions, vilification of activists, and both violence
and killings. The authors contend that acts of repression are likely to expand
and intensify as authoritarian regimes roll back climate policies, with a
particular focus on President Donald Trump’s actions in office criminalizing
protest, increasing police power, and publicly attacking climate and
environmental commitments.
The authors say the effects of this “repertoire of repression” are threefold.
First, a risk of legal sanctions, carceral punishment, and violence diverts
resources from movements and deters environmental action. Second,
criminalization delegitimizes climate movements in the public eye by framing
them as counterproductive, criminal, or dangerous. And third, that
criminalization and enforcement of new legislation diverts attention from
climate change by focusing conversations on ‘extremists’ and ‘eco-terrorists’
opposed to the public interest.
“Underlying all of this, we can see very clearly over the last few years
there’s been an incessant vilification of climate and environmental activists
around the world,” said Oscar Berglund, a co-author of the report. “Media and
politicians are very much involved and this kind of vilification feeds into all
these kinds of repressions.”"
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
