From 1b02a4bcaccfdae3d7ae78af9aab7eb239c5be7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Carstairs Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 13:19:39 +0100 Subject: chp1: slightly less negative about protests --- chapter1.md | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/chapter1.md b/chapter1.md index b756e07..305a921 100644 --- a/chapter1.md +++ b/chapter1.md @@ -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: -- cgit v1.2.3