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Really, Just Stop Oil has done wonders in the slightly more than a year that it’s been around. It’s cut through the chaotic cultural din of social media and has good name recognition. But it isn’t very popular.
Of course the drivers of London hate them with a passion and dread the small troops of orange-hi-vized people walking slowly through the traffic and snarling it up. Having tried everything else and found themselves ignored, Just Stop Oil are making a bloody nuisance of themselves — just as an ambulance or a fire alarm is a nuisance. They’re trying to draw attention to the fact that the boreal forests of Canada are burning, the planet is burning. Maybe we should spare a few minutes from Kardashians to put the fires out?
Nope. The right wing media call Just Stop Oil activists all kinds of nasty names, generally starting with ‘eco.’ As in eco-thugs, eco-zealots, eco-terrorists and (soon I’m sure) eco-wokes.
The right wing — or petrolhead — media clearly don’t believe a word of the science that scientists are desperately trying to spread, using closely- worded logical and rational articles to try to get some attention. Of course nobody reads the articles because they’re too hard and depressing.
Bless them, the poor petrolheads want to stay friends with the fossil fuel companies and their massive bags of cash, so they loudly back carbon…
