Disruption is often unpopular, but history is clear: it is one of the few tools that reliably produces political change Strikes, civil rights movements, and mass non-cooperation were all condemned at the time yet they worked because they created pressure the system couldn’t ignore. The climate crisis is different. It is time-critical in a way that past injustices were not. Delay now doesn’t just postpone justice, it escalates irreversible damage. We are not dealing with a long runway of decades. The next few years will significantly shape the trajectory of human civilisation. In this context, normal politics, petitions, speeches, polite lobbying has repeatedly failed to match the scale of the problem. That is why civil resistance matters. Not as a moral gesture, but as a strategic intervention when institutional pathways are insufficient. The question is not whether disruption is comfortable. The question is whether it is effective in the time we have left.