TBH, this seems worse than having the road blocked by climate activists for a few minutes, much less talk about doing so on a Zoom call.
@davidho Nowadays when it rains it downpours.
@davidho Ahhh, but you can arrest activists. You can’t arrest a flood.
But will the UK sentence rain-gods* to 25 yrs in jail
Ha! they're no gods but lowly traffic engineers who knew these extreme rain events were comin’ & instead of hardening our infrastructure during extreme weather, they pandered to #carbrain lobbyists & exposed American interests to that equalizer of #ClimateChange
This soggy highway is that Clausius—Clapeyron manifestation, nee, present political manisfestion, come future cognitive dissonance
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/7/19/uk-climate-activists-get-record-jail-terms-for-non-violent-protest
If by "rain gods" you mean fossil fuel CEOs, then yes.
But they're above the law. After all, they were also the ones who wrote these draconian laws and made right wing governments install them (do you think the UK is the only place).
It would be interesting to do an attribution study to assign blame — there is plenty to be had.
Arrest that water!
@davidho maybe they can sentence the flood to four or five years in prison
@davidho And once the Greenbelt gets stripped, it'll get even worse. Hopefully this will help motivate change for that.
Hopefully. But then again, hope isn't a plan.
@davidho MAGA people would say there's just a blocked drain 
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boat car hybrids will be the next big thing
@davidho halte à l'écologie punitive 
@davidho ffs, people, y'all are missing the point. lemme spell it out:
people get all huffy when climate protests cause them inconveniences such as traffic jams on major roadways.
however, the actual climate changes, like impassably flooded roadways, are FAR more inconvenient -- and even dangerous -- yet nobody seems to get bitchy or angry about it, they just carry on.
correct me if i'm wrong, @davidho , but i don't think OP was trying to either justify protesting or belittle the idea of protesting. more like "if you think the protests are inconvenient, just wait until the thing they're protesting about actually hits you personally."
@davidho In NL we use sheep op the highway to block it for hours. 
https://nos.nl/l/2529317
@davidho No, no, no, the difference is climate activists are avoidable, this is "force majeure"!
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Yes this is not just, we should prosecute the water!
@davidho this is easily solved with even larger US trucks that burn even more gas
Nice photo of "beliefs" (per the judge).
There's a thread with Hallam's [1] own description of the court case [2] and a fund-raising page (40 kGBP so far) [3] which does appear to be curated [4] (never donate online without thorough checking).
Online discussion in our ;) bubble is fine for moral support, but legal funds would help too [3].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Hallam_%28activist%29
[2] https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/112813077838695771
[3] https://chuffed.org/project/support-the-five-on-trial-for-conspiracy
[4] https://chuffed.org/how-it-works-crowdfunding/before-you-start
@davidho Crowdstrike are the real climate activists today!
