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What are your opinions on Just Stop Oil?
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I think they are being demonized and are not the baddies most people think they are.
First of all, one needs to put things in to perspective: Actions of JSO are victimless crimes. Throwing soup on a painting protected by a glass or blocking a road from vehicles.
I haven't read about JSO's protests disrupting any emergency services. Usually in protests like these the protesters let emergency vehicles pass.
JSO is using these methods to gain attention that climate movement wouldn't otherwise get. There still are many people who don't understand or care about climate change.
We would not even be talking about JSO if they did not pull off these kinds of stunts. If they only wrote blogs and open letters nobody would even know about them.
Climate change is already killing people: 60,000 people died due to heat in Europe last year. More people will die due to extreme heat and drought. Millions of people will become climate refugees. Oil companies, those that JSO is protesting against, have falsified information about climate change for years. They know that fossil fuel is not a solution. They are killing our planet for profit.
So no, I don't think that JSO is the bad guy here.
We'll see a different kind of protest when the over-privileged start to see their loved-ones randomly die of heat, cold, floods, fire, and other adverse weather.