Climate Activists

[emmer_moans]

Just Stop Oil supporters arrested over 'plan to disrupt airports this summer'

The arrests were made in London, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Devon, Essex, Manchester, Surrey, Sussex, Norfolk and West Yorkshire.

news.sky.com

From the article.

The act makes it illegal to conspire to disrupt national infrastructure.

now they can arrest them before a crime has been committed but for the last few years they have said that they couldn't make arrests until a crime was committed

hopefully this will stop them from sitting on motorways again, too.

 

[bubbadabut]

So tiresome that nothing is being done about this. It'll be the ones who take matters into their own hands that get punished. The injunction doesn't seem to be any sort of deterrent.

I saw someone suggest they should park a couple of lorries up front, turn on the engines and see how long they can tolerate the exhaust fumes before they move on.

 

[lilyannrose]

Emma Thompson backs Just Stop Oil at London march as protesters boo 'all politicians'

Asked if she supported the controversial climate action campaign group, the actress replied: "I think I support anyone who fights this extraordinary battle."

news.sky.com

Great actress, absolute irritant as a person. How can she not realise people like her screaming, crying and preaching at people when they life the lifestyles they do is only ever going to piss people off and generally do no good to the cause they've attached themselves to?
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So cringe. If they feel so bad then sell your home and belongings and give it all to those poor unfortunates and stop disrupting people #juststopbeingatwat

They never do though do they? And they never stop flying around to their multipile holidays a year. Scum.

 

[Scotch Mist]

Environmentalism has become a creepy bourgeois cult

Those deranged Just Stop Oil activists reveal the dangers of apocalypticism.

www.spiked-online.com

I certainly agree that it is like a cult.

 

[Yel]

If all it took was a cherry picker, why did it take 36 hours and not 2 hours to get it done?

• Dartford Crossing has been closed for a day after two protesters climbed the QEII bridge at 3.50am yesterday
• A cherry picker arrived and the eco-zealots have now been taken down from the bridge and arrested
• The two men have been arrested on a charge of suspicion of conspiracy to commit public nuisance
• Comes as police also probing video appearing to show fireworks being fired at the protesters last night
• A separate protest by the group this morning blocked traffic outside Barons Court station in London

 

[emmer_moans]

Westminster Abbey: JSO activists spray-paint Charles Darwin grave

Two climate activists are in police custody for spraying chalk paint on the Westminster Abbey grave.

www.bbc.co.uk

Here we go again...

 

[NeverEnough]

is that a per capita reading? More people and industry (well, not all, but some industries…) will raise that obviously. And with Germany shutting down the nuclear plants, other stuff gets burned, which was just a stupid move, if you ask me.
What really disturbed me is those near east countries burning oil like there’s truly no tomorrow for shite. Let’s be honest. Nobody needed that football stadium in the effing desert.

This 100%. Let’s face it Qatar got the World Cup due to the liberal circulation of brown envelopes (allegedly) and I see almost zero legacy from this. Does a country that size need eight hi tech stadiums after the tournament? Even if football, for which they have zero history and previously little discernible interest, “takes off”.

I will however enjoy the spectacle of Gary Linekar, displaying his JSO supporting virtue, from a state of the art Doha press centre funded almost entirely from fossil fuel sales.

 

[Tatooine_legend1]

Well they are going about it wrong. I agree that the government need to do more about the environment. I myself would like to live in a country that focuses on protecting the environment to the highest standards possible. When you read reports like this:

Sewage discharged into rivers 400,000 times in 2020

Waterways in England had sewage discharged into them for three million hours

www.bbc.co.uk

it is infuriating. I have even wrestled with the idea of voting for the Greens. A healthy environment is always going to benefit us as a species. I'm not against extinction rebellion, but I also don't like or support the way they go about bringing awareness.

 

[Yel]

These people aren't hippies or vegans.

They're the kind to latch on to anything that's useful as a tool.

 

[NeverEnough]

Lmao what? Our police murder ppl. Both in uniform getting paid for it & out of uniform for free for their sadistic kicks.

This thread is wild Tory vibes dw about quote tweeting me to “correct” I don’t read I love my eco chamber

Are you really going down the route that the UK is some sort of fascist police state with out of control cops brutalising and murdering civilians with complete impunity?

 

[emmer_moans]

All those protesters are doing is upsetting the Joe Bloggs on the street just trying to make a living and buy food to fuel themselves for the week. A lot of vegan convenience food is ultra processed carcinogenic laden synthetic muck transported around the world for processing. These protesters are holier than thou without thinking of the environmental impact of fake meats and milks being grown, transported and processed in various parts of the world before they reach the supermarket. That manager was weak and I knew he was weak as he slowly sauntered up to them.

At the end of the day, diet is a personal choice and noone should be blocking aisles to make a point. Instead they should lobby through proper channels like their MP.

 

[emmer_moans]

LOL at this woman - such a drama llama!

#ThingsThatNeverHappened

"Well, grandad will be there"

 

[Lonette]

I saw the police actually arrested some of the Just Stop Oil crew today, which was a surprise though I fear still a waste of time as they seem to have carte blanche to do as they please no matter how life-ruining to others.

It did make me laugh to read the wailings of some of them and then in the same breath, they were defending why they travelled from Scotland to London to protest. Bunch of numpties who are a disgrace to the issue, and who seem to be driven to behave the way they do by severe mental illness and being exploited by the likes of Roger Hallam rather than anything else. You just have to read/listen to some of them speak to know they are no longer aware which way is up.

 

[LadyMuck]

How come security were so slow to react and how come there cameras all set up on tripods?

 

[Ceelea]

They’ve done the same thing to a Aston Martin shop near Park Lane.

What in the fuck is that... thing ?

 

[kev1974]

I'd like smartphones to be revealed as a major cause of climate change. That would shut them all up.

Maybe not climate change but Amnesty International did a massive project a few years ago on child labour involved in mining the materials used in smart phones and other electronics including electric cars

Exposed: Child labour behind smart phone and electric car batteries

Major electronics brands, including Apple, Samsung and Sony, are failing to do basic checks to ensure that cobalt mined by child labourers has not been used in their products, said Amnesty International and Afrewatch in a report published today.

www.amnesty.org

Is my phone powered by child labour?

Has the cobalt in your smartphone been mined by children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?

www.amnesty.org

And that's without going in to the worker rights/conditions at the factories where the phones are assembled, or the pollution caused by shipping them around the world to us, or the poor track record on recycling them, OR getting stuck into all the same issues about the comms equipment, steel masts, miles of cable etc necessary for the infrastructure that supports the mobile phones ... we all like our phones too much so we turn a blind eye to it all.

 

[Scotch Mist]

"Passionate about social justice" equals someone searching for a "cause" to bang on about. Endlessly. To fill the hours which would otherwise be empty.

It's because British people have been made to feel ashamed of their own culture and the values of previous generations, so young people attach themselves to 'causes' to make them feel more worthy.

 

[rainbowlemon]

Gone too far?

They turned up at Rishi's home.

 

[Piff paff puff]

The police in these protests aren't upholding the law. There needs to be a privately funded police force to do the job our police force used to do.

 

[Scotch Mist]

Just Stop Oil appear to have branched out into general protesting now? Here they are yesterday failing to stop a coach of migrants heading to the Bibby Stockholm

I don't understand why JSO are involved in this?
What has this got to do with oil?

Fair enough for people to protest if they don't agree with the barge, but as someone who works for a local authority I wonder if they realise that accommodation for asylum seekers and migrants is in extremely short supply. There simply isn't enough available housing stock to give everyone a flat or even a bed at a hostel. Local authorities can't magic up accommodation that doesn't exist.