Well if we stopped building useless shit…
How much washing machines can you build for an average yacht’s worth of ressources time and energy?
Probably not enough but it’s not like there wasn’t other useless shit being made nor like a lot of households would not do just fine sharing a washing machine.
UK is in Europe. They have left the EU but are still in Europe.
Read the article, it mentions several EU countries where acts of sabotage have been increasing.
Criminalization does not mean “applying the laws”, or at least that is only one aspect of it. It can also mean creating new laws or even have nothing to do with the actual legal framework. In France for example, the government has taken the nasty habit of publically branding nature activists as terrorists. That is a form of criminalization even if it remains largely symbolical.
It can also mean that prosecution takes a harder stance or uses a different, harsher legal framework. In France again, vandalism and destruction of private or public property is of course illegal. However the definition of terrorism is rather loose and can also includes acts of sabotage.
So when nature activists break the law to perform acts of sabotage, the prosecution can choose to decide that it was vandalism and treat it as such, or as terrorism and treat it as such. The latter not only allows harsher punishment, but also gives police and prosecution much larger means and leeway, leveraging legislation that was passed not to fight political activism or sabotage, but as a reaction to a whole other kind of terrorism, you know, the kind that haphazardly murders dozens if not hundreds of citizens.
Criminalization can also mean allowing or encouraging the police to respond much more violently to peaceful protests, or the authorities trying to suppress various organisations taking isolated acts of sabotage as an excuse.
Edit: talking about France because that’s what I know best but there is a similar trend in several other Western European countries.
Time flies, I’m sorry to tell you but you’ve been bombing civilians for quite a few more decades than that.