Suzanne Harrington: Climate protests can be annoying — but less annoying than going extinct
A Just Stop Oil protester on court 18 after throwing confetti on to the grass during Katie Boulter’s first-round match against Daria Saville on day three of the 2023 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon.
When you think of Emily Davison, the woman who fatally threw herself under a race horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby, what’s the first thing you think? Is it (a) how selfish of her to ruin a sporting event or (b) how she helped change the course of history for women’s rights? Probably (b), right?
Yet after the seven hottest days on earth in recorded history, what has been the focus after some climate activists harmlessly disrupted Wimbledon by throwing orange confetti around a tennis court? Weirdly, it's (a).
