chp1: slightly less negative about protests

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@@ -381,7 +381,8 @@ to default to activism, but this has no route to political success:
 > something' about climate change. [@or-something-worse, p. 111]
 
 Sadly, despite the great excitement protests often generate, they typically have
-limited material impacts on governments. It is therefore easy for governments to
+limited direct material impacts on governments. If protests do not catalyse further,
+more effective forms of action, it is therefore easy for governments to
 pay lip service to the protesters' cause and move on. The net result is little
 political change and feelings of betrayal, demonstrated, as eloquently as ever,
 by Thunberg: