We can learn a lot about a society from who it chooses to jail during a planetary emergency, and who it allows to walk free.

For example, last month, Ohio's former speaker of the House was sentenced to 20 years in prison for taking $61 million in bribes to pass one of the worst anti-climate laws in the nation—but the execs who orchestrated the bribes haven't been charged.

Meanwhile, climate activists around the world are being arrested and jailed left and right for mildly disruptive protest.

For today’s HEATED,

and I compiled some salient recent examples of an often unexamined reality of the climate crisis: That around the world, governments dole out more consequences for the people who protest climate injustice than they do for the people who perpetrate it.