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A Just Stop Oil protester is led away from the 2023 Wimbledon Championships by police in July after throwing confetti on to the grass during a first-round match. File picture: PA

If you knew for certain that something unimaginably terrible was going to happen, yet the only possible way it could be prevented is by breaking the law, would you do it? 

And, if by taking this action, you were likely to face public vilification, prosecution, and possible imprisonment, would you still do it? This is the dilemma facing many people in today’s environmental and climate movement.