Just Stop Oil protesters jailed for 4 years after highway blocked

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1. >Prosecutors alleged the protests led to an economic cost of at least £765,000, while the cost to the Metropolitan Police was put at more than £1.1m.

   Cool, now whats the economic cost of global warming and who is going to jail for it? Anyone? Hello? Anyone?

2. Good!

3. Ah yes, jail the people pointing out the problem while letting the people causing the problem keep on going. Great society we have

4. In the UK, rapists can be sentenced to as little as 4 years. 3 years for grievous bodily harm. 2 years minimum for manslaughter.

   **Hallam was jailed for 5 years for attending a Zoom call.**

   The UK legal system is functionally a police state now. No dissent is tolerated.

5. Just Stop Oil blockages convince no one, and increases CO2 emits from the traffic jams they produce.

6. Estimated cost of wasting police officer time = a million.
   Estimated cost of climate change related disasters and ecological breakdown = billions and billions and billions and then society collapses.

   Well done

7. Good

8. These aren’t the activists in the streets to be clear, these are the head organizers. I’m curious if/when they’ll be released early. 4-5 years is by far the biggest sentence I’ve seen on climate activists in the UK, at least from what’s been visible in the media.

9. I’m reading that the UK water boards (especially responsible for sewerage) are piping raw sewerage into the oceans and paying themselves handsomely.
   That must be worth a lot of economic damage, starting with bad health and pollution costs.
   How much jail time are the UK water boards getting?

10. Did they go to a jury trial? Could they have? I imagine it would be slightly difficult to find 12 people to convict these days and getting harder as we progress through evident in your face climate change.

11. Makes sense