It is customary to allow emergency services to pass through blockades. But for other people, interrupting the economy is literally the point. The economy is destroying the means of habitability of this planet.

This blockade isn’t preventing any of that, there are small diversions. A mild inconvenience at worst.

Roads are regularly closed for events (which do not enjoy constitutional protection as a human right, as protests do) and roadworks.

Finally the other ways are being done. There was a simultaneous protest on a field nearby. There are regular marches, die-ins, sit-ins - you name it, it’s being done.

You can make arguments like this for all forms of protests and the planet continues to burn.

What is an acceptable level of protest? Joining r/climatechange and upvoting the circle jerk?

What are you suggesting? That people find a way that doesn't impact anything in any way and can easily be ignored? And today's climate protests are easily the most non-violent protests the West has seen in a long time.

A protest that isn't inconveniencing anybody isn't a protest

That's a given on all public gatherings. Emergency vehicles (i.e. ambulance and fire brigade) have to have way of right, but people know that.

Name some

It’s the mayor’s choice to mass arrest people and send in water cannons. He could have facilitated the protes, in fact the the government is by law obligated to attempt to facilitate protests in the way the protestors intend to have them.

It’s telling that the prosecutor doesn’t even attempt to charge those arrested - they write on their own website that judges have ruled these protests to be peaceful and orderly.

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Qatar actually. I make this mistake too.

Right, because 30°C in the middle of September is totally normal and in no way an indication that climate change is about to get completely out for control.

Let's just go to the beach, everything is fine and we don't have to change anything, let alone something that will inconvenience us.

Temperatures in September are already past 1,5 degree increase. We need to do something. Now.

Can I ask what your solution is?

If they don't like being inconvenienced for a couple of minutes, wait till they hear about the climate crisis!

Oh so instead of decisive action on the climate crisis, they'll just criminalize climate activism. Democracy at work. Noted.

That’s quite the statement. Support for XR is growing with every protest. So “most Dutch”? I wouldn’t be so sure about that…

Good, that will stop the planet from burning, right?

Protests are allowed and expected to cause inconvenience, protestors are under no obligation to minimise inconvenience, and inconvenience is not legal ground for a mayor to limit or ban a protest.

Most Dutch people don't like what these activists are doing.

Source?

blocking access to one of our biggest cities and one of the most beloved beaches

Yeah because the only way to get to Scheveningen is to take that small piece of highway? How about any of the other ways leading into or around The Hague? They aren't blocking access to The Hague or Scheveningen, there isn't one singular road in or out.

It's quite likely that our Parliament will pass a law similar to the UK to criminalize the blocking of infrastructure.

Source?

Don't pretend to speak for the rest of our country because you obviously don't and don't dramatize the blockage of a small section of 'highway' in the middle of a city as being a blockage of access to the entire city.

Mmmm tasty tasty boot