Peaceful Crimes for Violent Climes

While the average global proportion of climate and environmental protest leading to arrest is under seven per cent, among the master race it's seventeen. The only country with a greater zeal for persecuting activists is Britain's penal continent from the pre-Rwanda days; and the countries with the lowest rates tend to be those, like Uganda and Brazil, where the police have more scope for assertiveness and need not give excessive consideration to the well-being of subversive elements. Nevertheless, the greatest democracy in the world has found it necessary to make itself still safer for profiteers and still less soft on insidious acts of non-violent protest. This approach has been "followed by many other countries," so patriots will rejoice that Britain continues to be world-beating on at least one criterion related to the climate crisis, though naturally not with anything so immoderate and unsensible as mitigating it.