Just Stop Just Stop Oil

Its just attention seeking no idea why they havent been arrested.

The heroes of East Wall were blocking the port tunnel at rush hour and the road into the airport last year and no one gave a sh*t or was calling for jail and police beatings. They had their children with them too.

If it was climate protesters people would be going mental. I don't agree with JSO tactics but at least their concern is the existential threat of climate change and not some foreigners moving into their area.

Its up for debate whether their actions are effective or not.

Judging by this thread, it is being effective: What they have done has people talking about fossil fuels. People are repeating their name and message: "Just stop oil". Even the first post of this thread brings up the topic of environmentalism.

The downside is that although what they are doing is close to harmless (orange powdered chalk on tables at a snooker championship, colored cornstarch on Stonehenge, temporally stopping traffic and sports tournaments etc) there are those who get annoyed by their disruption and could solidify their position against ending our reliance on oil.

However, there is a much larger proportion of the population that is sleep walking towards climate change. What groups like these do is get the population to start paying attention to it and discussing it.

The Suffragettes followed a similar approach for womens rights. But they were far more militant, sometimes even committing arson and bombings.

if someone is driven away from environmentalism by this then they realistically didnt give much of a sh!t in the first place……

They might actually get somewhere if they put themselves forward to be elected and in a position to force change.

Being a nuisance won't change anything, they just look like they have a few screws loose.

Imported from Wales, 60 miles away. Half the age of Newgrange. That colouring will wash off, like used in Diwali.

Given your above comment I don't think you appreciate original art in the same way other folks do. The value of a painting is 100% not in just what in portrays. In that case reproductions would be worth the same as the originals.

What I and others find so valuable about originals is that they were created by the hand of a master. That they stood in front of they same canvas and created it with their hands. It creates a connection to them through time. You can't recreate that. Much like extinct creatures, once it's gone it's gone.

Stonehenge was created by our ancestors thousands of years ago. It might just be a lump of stones to some but it's literally a connection to the ancients to others. It shouldn't be vandalised.

I totally agree with the sadness of losing species but I suppose if I wanted to take a cruel approach like your one to original art, evolution by its very nature does the same thing. Nothing is static and entropy gets everything in the end. But sure it'll spring new life to replace is so I suppose that's all grand isn't it?

Methane hydrate releases will probably do us all in the short to medium term. Happy googling.

how is condemning criminal behavior… “ trying to out Tory the tories “ ?

Putting the mental into environmental

Wikipedia -

Funding

Just Stop Oil reports that all their funding is through donations,[9] with the group accepting both traditional currency and cryptocurrencies.[21] In April 2022, it was reported that Just Stop Oil's primary source of funding was donations from the US-based Climate Emergency Fund.[22] Through that fund, a notable donor to the group has been Aileen Getty, a descendant of the Getty family which founded the Getty Oil company.[23] In response, the Climate Emergency Fund stated that Getty did not work in the fossil fuel industry herself.[5]

In October 2023, green energy industrialist Dale Vince, who had donated over £340,000 to Just Stop Oil,[24][25] announced he no longer planned to fund Just Stop Oil. He said: "under the current government, protest cannot work. I would go so far as to say that anything that could feed the Tories' culture-war narrative is counter-productive".[26]

LOL - Old Oil money funding these eejits.

If I was big oil I would secretly fund these trust fund losers

Newgrange is full of concrete and rebar, materials well known to neolithic peoples.

I'd be surprised if the Russians didnt throw some money at the Greens there to close down Nuclear ;-)

Maybe not quite..

The group said: “Jennifer and Cole cut the fence into the private airfield at Stansted where Taylor Swift’s jet is parked, demanding an emergency treaty to end fossil fuels by 2030.”

Police sources said they had since been informed that the Shake It Off singer’s jet wasn’t at the private airfield.