At the beginning of September, approximately 70,000 people took to the streets of the Czech Republic’s capital city of Prague calling for the government to do more about spiraling energy prices.
During that same time in Germany, the far-left and the far-right put aside their differences to threaten weekly protests against the rising cost of food, gas, and energy.
In Naples, Italy, citizens set fire to the expensive energy bills in the streets. And in Sweden, Norway, and the United Kingdom, unrest reached a fever pitch.
The citizens of these countries were far from alone in their discontent.
Protesters attend a rally triggered by energy price hikes in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Jan. 4, 2022. (Abduaziz Madyarov/AFP via Getty Images)
On Sep. 1, risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft released a report that found over the past quarter, civil unrest rose in 101 out of 198 countries….