I imagine it has something to do with the disproportionate sentencing, at least in the US. Disable a tractor but hurt no one? Any other scenario, you get a fine. In the name of climate activism? Prison for 8 years.
Not quite the same, but the FBI gets recruited to go after people who free animals from slaughter houses, since they consider it ‘tampering with the nation’s food supply’. There are just certain industries that are much more dangerous to do activism against.
I imagine it has something to do with the disproportionate sentencing, at least in the US. Disable a tractor but hurt no one? Any other scenario, you get a fine. In the name of climate activism? Prison for 8 years.
Not quite the same, but the FBI gets recruited to go after people who free animals from slaughter houses, since they consider it ‘tampering with the nation’s food supply’. There are just certain industries that are much more dangerous to do activism against.