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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Aina Khan

‘We’re going to be unpopular’: Do sports protests help or harm activism?

A Just Stop Oil protester disrupts a match at the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield [File: Mike Egerton/PA via AP Photos]

Bradford, England – The United Kingdom has witnessed a summer of civil disobedience where an unprecedented number of “guerilla” tactics and protests at major sporting events – most of them climate group campaigners and activists – have exploded across the country.

As United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that “climate breakdown has begun”, the World Meteorological Organization confirmed that the world went through its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer on record last month.

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