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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


THE HAGUE, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Police deployed water cannon to disperse thousands of climate activists protesting on a highway in the Netherlands on Saturday to demand an end to government subsidies for the fossil fuel industry.

More than 10,000 people marched along the A12 highway into The Hague, ignoring warnings from authorities not to block the major traffic artery into the Dutch seat of government.

The police said in a statement they detained 2,400 protesters, including minors.

There were no reports of injuries.

Extinction Rebellion, which organised the event, has said it will continue to hold protests until the government of the Netherlands stops using public funds to subsidise the oil and gas industry.

"The seas are rising and so are we," chanted the crowd, which included children and the elderly.


The original article contains 132 words, the summary contains 132 words. Saved 0%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

132 words to 132 words. Made me read the whole article while thinking I read a summary.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

good bot. 0% = very efficient <3

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Whoever wrote the article should be proud. Assuming they too are not a bot, that is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's no reason for them to step up to that point and also a weird and sad comment to make, this is the Netherlands.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Oh. Sorry. In America it would be rubber bullets, tear gas, then dogs.