Semi seriously...
What's the point of peaceful protest? It achieves nothing. The middle classes and Mail readers can feel reassured by it (oh what kind gentle people they all are...let's forget all about it in 3 seconds more), governments can be reassured that few resources are needed to 'deal with' it and, similarly, ignore it, and the target is unthreatened and, having a proven track record of not giving a shit, can similarly go right on doing damage.
I like peace, don't get me wrong, but the human race is way too thick not to be manipulated by the rich, the greedy, and the powerful.
Revolution, large scale and violent is the only way. It won't happen tho because it's too late. Those in charge (the lizards) have already achieved their goal of dulling and pacifying the worlds masses. It's 'Brave New World' innit.
But I do think protests need to be heard, seen, and now recorded, and shared as they do harm and damage. We have understood this for hundreds of years. The French and Russian revolutions may not have been quite the same if nice friendly chats over a cup of tea had been the order of the day.
We are in need of a very large kick in the ass on climate change; the alternative is to risk being the generation who knew, but thought, 'nah, I'm ok, still get to run my car and eat my BBQ. Let someone else deal with it'. I wonder what our grandkids would have said to us if they could meet us in a hundred years time after we had gone over the tipping point? "It'll be ok tho Grandad, the government have promised there'll be room on the mars shuttle for everyone, even tho the government (and their friends and, and) are going first....with all the food, and guns. We read in the papers that you can grow soya on mars in a plastic sealed tunnel and we get our own plastic tent. We'll be fine". "Nature? No. We asked if we could take a pet but there's not enough air so. Maybe rocks can be pets?"