Civil disobedience in environmentalism: past, present, future

Published: Feb. 10, 2023, 11:34 a.m.

From the suffragettes to US civil rights campaigners, there are many examples from history of social movements using direct action to push for change. It's a tactic climate activists in the West are increasingly resorting to today. But do radical acts still work with a challenge as immense as climate change? And how are such protests viewed in other parts of the world?