Memo to Just Stop Oil and everyone risking all to save the planet: we need a rethink

‘The type of protest considered acceptable to government is rapidly shrinking. This is a massive threat to democracy.’ Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

The battle between climate protesters and the government is raging, and most people know who is in the right. The people trying to sound the alarm about the climate crisis are closer to mainstream opinion than those enabling fossil fuel corporations to make almost $3bn a day in profit while the planet burns.

Many in the government probably know it too, but to openly confront that reality would mean doing the unthinkable: pointing to corporate short-termism as the source of the crisis.