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Understandable, and increasingly in agreement with the general thrust of what you're getting at. Mostly, I'm reticent to jump aboard the train of More surveillance!", "More regulation!", and "More government!" as the almighty panacea to all the stuff on Ms. Bradford's loony wish-list. For those...

Well, since this seems to be a "General-purpose Green idiocy!" thread:

Recall video of this happening in Italy a year or two back, too. Guess more people across more nations are starting to feel the same way? :unsure:

No, thanks. Actually, @Typhonis already started it before I could. You don’t need to visit if you don’t want to, though.

Fresh take from Styx:

Yeah... Honestly, I'm starting to wonder if there's anything akin to an "Ecological Disasters and Their Consequences" thread around here? I know about the US Train Derailments thread, but in the interest of not cluttering up that one with news of disasters abroad, maybe I should start a new...

Not sure it belongs in this thread, so the mods are free to tell me or move it elsewhere: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/africas-okavango-oil-drilling-disrupts-locals-nature-98445888 (Archived version here, for long-term preservation purposes.) More specifically, they try to...

… Because people reflexively solve government-manufactured crises with yet more government expansion, on and on until things reach their nadir and the populace desperate clamors for a strongman to make everything right again? Yeah, that’d do it, though I fear our crash will end in horrors like...

It always amazes me how every time there's a crisis, people naturally default to "More surveillance!", "More regulation!", and "More government!" as the almighty panacea — even when it either doesn't work, worsens the problem, or creates whole new ones that don't materialize until decades down...