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"Protesters who wear masks could face arrest, up to a month in jail and a £1,000 fine under proposed measures that human rights campaigners claim are pandering to “culture war nonsense”.

Police in England and Wales will be given the power to arrest people if they are wearing face coverings at specific demonstrations, the Home Office has said."

Been a bad 18 months or so for privacy in the UK. Online Safety Bill passed, the right to take strike action curtailed, people in receipt of benefits (including disabled people) will soon (as from 2025) have their bank accounts open to the government, the right to protest curtailed and now this.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Climate change only affects westerners? Things are going badly for the world.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Climate change affects everyone, but that doesn't mean it's an unsolvable problem. In fact, at least one country is far along the path of mitigating it.

[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Climate change is not something any one country can mitigate. It's going to take all of us - the world.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago

Sure, but some countries are leading the change and others are dragging all of us down https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/19/business/us-production-oil-reserves-crude/index.html

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As long as world powers are putting profit over everything, we are not going to “solve” climate change.

We know how to fix it. We won’t do it, because there is A LOT of money to be made by doing so.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

Sure, capitalism needs to be abolished for humanity to thrive.

[–] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -3 points 9 months ago

Some are doing better than others, but emissions aren't meaningfully improving in most other industrial countries.