Greta Thunberg arrives at London court for oil protest trial

Saving the environment is universal human rights and environmental rights and precedes any individual countries law that seeks to prevent those universal rights from taking effect. The British police will have to show exceptional proof that Greta Thunberg was a danger to the public otherwise the judge will throw the matter out of court. Go, Greta, go.

The puffed up self important, hackneyed phrase you use, against Greta’s so called crime is best put in context by Carl Sagan: “The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this ‘dot ‘on the other …., how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another…….. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. ‘in the universe.’ Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.” Rather, we should celebrate this brave young girl and her generation who dares take on the dismal failures and destruction of previous generations and their ‘their Laws’ - to save us from ourselves - it ‘won’t come from elsewhere’