Who are Just Stop Oil? Where the controversial climate protesters began

Damien Gayle, a Guardian environment correspondent, follows a group of climate activists as they try to paralyse the UK's fossil fuel distribution network.
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We film with him as the protesters break into oil terminals, glue themselves to the road, climb onboard oil tankers and let down their tyres. The campaign, called Just Stop Oil, argues the UK has three years to slash its carbon emissions. They have been met with arrests, injunctions and condemnation from politicians - with the government using the Queen’s speech to announce curbs on disruptive protests. But with deep-pocketed supporters, and claims they are signing new volunteers every day, they are vowing to continue
00:00 Intro
01:40 Activists attempt to disrupt the Kingsbury oil terminal
06:00 Recruiting and fundraising in north London
10:25 Storming the navigator oil terminal, Essex
13:26 Blocking oil tankers under the Chiswick flyover, west London
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[@AltaMirage]

Literally EVERYTHING THEY ARE WEARING, from their shoes to the sign they are carrying to their bags and glassess ARE FREAKING OIL PRODUCTS.

[@timmyfriday2718]

Tell me you haven't got it without telling me ...

[@smirky101]

what percentage of petroleum drilled actually goes to making products? i'll wait while you google an answer you don't know.

[@johnnycash578]

why did you use the word literally it has no place for what your saying you are grossly misusing it ?!?!?

[@shinyeee1709]

@@smirky101shipping & production. Clearly those clothes came from somewhere but there in London

[@user-rp2vg1ji4u]

при всём этом они могли бы заменить свою одежду и обувь на сделанную из конопли . Тогда это был бы хотя бы личный пример . В итоге мы имеем толпу безработных лицемеров. Есть простое правило "Делай как я" , но они даже личным примером не пропагандируют свои убеждения . К сожалению такие люди есть везде. Но также они могут быть подосланными от нефтяных компаний , чтобы опорочить ЛЮБЫЕ , даже правильные протесты по теме экологии. Никто не хочет быть в одном строе с дураками.

[@ya00007]

If oil stopped today, a lot of people will die because logistics will stop. How many trucks and lorries are fully electric today? I have no sympathy for these activists.

[@robertanderson6786]

couldnt agree more

[@LaserBread]

Why are they not electric?

[@garcjr]

​@@LaserBreadAt this point in time it's way too inefficient the amount of finite resources to mine the materials for the battery and the added weight required to move the vehicle make it not much better than burning oil.

[@eugenetswong]

@@garcjr Mining for that stuff is too dangerous, too.

[@iainstewart7104]

They don't want to stop it today

[@hauntedwessexscarystoriesf640]

And they meet in McDonalds 😂 Now there’s an environmentally friendly meeting space 😂

[@mrmochay9222]

It's unreal that..... Says everything.

[@JohnJohn-cu7nk]

👍🤣

[@random6033]

"You want to change society, yet you live in the society - hypocrite"

[@Isaac-ho8gh]

True, but its even more dumb that they all met in one place. No wonder the police saw what they were doing lol

[@brettgofgosky1911]

Through

[@simonm9097]

As a business owner that uses diesel powered machinery there currently is no viable alternative to diesel. What do they want me to do lay 6 people off with families and go bust

[@Carlium]

Yup, just like what happened in my capital city Oslo. They removed parking spots besides businesses, a few days later they announced that they would have to discontinue the city store due to lack of parking spots for logistics, one company said directly to the local news that 6 people will be fired because of this and people will need to go outside the city visit there other stores. Environmentalists is hard to understand, they want a better future for our children, yet all they do is take away workplaces.

[@Gianfranco_69]

Yes ,that's just for startera

[@bryansmith1404]

@@Carlium think there are loads of jobs in building viable alternatives.

[@AsThe3rdEye]

If you have done your research and there is no viable alternative, you've done your due diligence. The next step would be for the legislation to allow if not invite companies that can supply an alternative into your local market. Better still would be to incentivize such businesses to open or create facilities locally, which will not only provide the alternative but also provide sustainable local jobs.

[@Carlium]

@@bryansmith1404 It depends on location and demands. You can't just create a ton of businesses in an area with little to no demand. There's also distance to think about, if you have a specialized store on every corner, it won't be worth it, since not everyone will be buying something special all the time, and there's logistics businesses, creating outposts or offices closer together will reduce the area each has to cover, thus increasing the efficiency, but who are they serving, and does the demand live up to what they deliver? It costs to start up a new business or outpost, and if the demand isn't there, then it's not worth it to create more of those businesses or outposts simply because it's not profitable. Please give an example of a "viable alternative" next time, instead of just stating a statement with nothing to back it up, thanks.

[@Roland_Tr909_Swing]

If you committed this action on an oil tanker on the ocean you could be hung for piracy.

[@blow0me]

long overdue the gallows were brought back

[@SStupendous]

@@blow0me nah, need keel-hauling

[@idlenavigator4980]

I'm all for transitioning to renewable, but people fail to understand the extent at which we rely on oil. The hi-viz jackets they all wear have plastics made from petroleum by-products. It's going to take great minds and persistence to transition.

[@OlliHazard]

You’re right about the dependence on oil. But what most people also don’t realize is just how bad things can get, and how soon.

[@marcellorudofsky3633]

@@OlliHazard this is such a based nuanced exchange very rare for KZbin comments

[@Dennan]

@@OlliHazard people been saying that sense the 50s. there are always young people with ideas of changing the world , its nothing new. nature will make changes to our life whatever you like it or not, there is no point trying to stop the inevitiable, you might think that nature is at the mercy of humans, but its the otherway around, if we go to far in one way, nature is gonna kick back hard, and we will lose alot of people, id say, let nature take its natural cause. thats only how change can come. couse people will listen when 30-40% of the world is below water.

[@A.D.540]

@@jameshart678 renewable technology create more co2 then trdational one when being made even when the resource that is needed been digged. also once made it doesnt work outside wind and sun light so it limited that generat upto 500 electricity. uk has 60m in population not 1,000. lol

[@viv8117]

@@OlliHazard That’s true.

[@boopro12]

Does she realize what "oil" is... Just stop it? does she understand how things work? I am all for the push to clean energy and renewables but it will take time.

[@calgar42k]

the funny thing is they are equally opposed to nuclear energy which is the only long term viable alternative to oil allowing electrification !

[@George-uy2kb]

@@calgar42kyour right. Nuclear energy is actually the safest and cleanest energy. Yet whenever these people think of it they think of Fukushima or Chernobyl. I really feel like these people don’t actually understand that by removing oil, removes their electricity, people’s homes, offices, work spaces won’t produce heating or cooling, concrete and construction wouldn’t be processed, plowing machines for crops won’t get fuel. Yes oil can be bad, but without it, our society wouldn’t function

[@AsThe3rdEye]

Who pays the cost for actions by Insulate Britain, Tyre Extinguishers, Just Stop Oil, Freedom Convoy: the general public. Who are those groups saying they're protecting? The general public. Who loses the most from their actions? The general public, not the groups named Who can ignore their actions the easiest? The government. Who are they trying to influence? The government What is the news covering? The impact on the general public. If those groups wanted to make a statement, they would hold something like a hunger strike. Let's compare: Who pays the cost for a hunger strike by Insulate Britain, Tyre Extinguishers, Just Stop Oil and the Freedom Convoy? The groups named Who are those groups saying they're protecting? The general public Who loses the most from their actions? The groups named Who cannot ignore their actions the easiest? The government. Who are they trying to influence? The government What is the news covering? The reason they're protesting As they are, these groups are whining, petulant children.

[@smirky101]

Ask the irish prisoners in 1981 how well the british government responds to hunger strikes. You aren't paying attention to history, if you are recommending protesting action that is quiet, out of the way, and easy to ignore.

[@mattc8347]

What a bunch of 🤡

[@jasonhare8540]

She says no more oil licenses without our consent ... Since the majority of the population isn't on your side you don't seem to have their consent ....

[@stephenowens3687]

I predict that after this winter people won't put up with such nonsense anymore.

[@Carlium]

Even better, they realise that electricity is made from oil and coal in their region, they protest near the powerplants, blocking workers from going to work, public services shuts off their power, they freeze, end of story.

[@jimmyormerod4075]

@@GuacamoleyNacho every new build has the best insulation going and do you realize the sheer scale of re inuslating every home in britiain im a builder ik full well people dont have 100 grand for each house to be ripped out insulated and renovated coz thats what has to done the house has to be taken back to brick it has to be a slow procces over decades we dont live in fairyland were buildrs can magiclly make insulation appear in your wall cavity fracking is clean and safe experts know that

[@SStupendous]

@@GuacamoleyNacho

[@angelozachos8777]

Fighting BIG OIL on their cellphones whilst grabbing a bite at McDonald’s 😂 The lack of Self-Awareness coming from all these ‘Environmentalist Warrior’ types is jaw-dropping 🤷‍♂️

[@random6033]

"Oh, you want to protest climate change? But you live in the society. Why don't you go live in a shed in the forest?"

[@sharpiefatah3657]

They are funded by Oil tycoon to make look real Environmental activists bad

[@random6033]

@@sharpiefatah3657 but they're literally not

[@sharpiefatah3657]

@@random6033 they are, look name Alleen.... something, head of climate emergency

[@sharpiefatah3657]

@@random6033 it's all over the news

[@tomforeman7483]

Damien's a great journo. Very difficult to balance maintaining access and documenting the reality.

[@CMFT_69]

Reality?

[@Post.nut_Clarity]

if the public deemed this a worthy cause they would have banded together in support by now. when you start messing with people's livelihoods is when, before long, someone snaps and decides to use violence. take a hint.

[@anonanon1879]

The public is addicted to this luxury. The cost of pollution and climate change will be far greater than people having to change jobs

[@SStupendous]

@@anonanon1879 Nevermind the fact that JUST STOPPING OIL will cause a million issues on its own, if we JUST stop oil, just like that.

[@kaywaters7478]

Just eating his chips COOKED IN OIL!!!!

[@Echo126_]

That's cooking oil mate

[@garyverth4887]

Wasters who are to lazy to work taking their anger out.

[@pathopewell1814]

Marxists, indoctrinated.

[@theblackhand1]

Ironic that they are mostly elderly. Enjoyed the benefits of Oil their whole life, then when close to the end act all pius and righteous. Hypocrites

[@marklimbrick]

Actually your comment can be politely addressed. Most if the elderly people will have experienced a childhood during or at least just after ww2. If you imagine walking 10 miles to work and no food off ration with a handful if coal a week then compare to what you take for granted? Even I had icicles inside the house with frost inside the windows and that was 1960.

[@jayz8839]

Exactly, also profiteered from the housing boom. Imagine that witch telling u this is about children while stopping u seeing ur children, I’d straight out ask her how many abortions has she had.

[@aspiknf]

*pious, not pius.

[@butterbetty5875]

The organization of the JSO is the same as the volunteers who go to suicide bombers and the executives who watch suicide bombers from a safe zone. Underlings are arrested, but executives are not. Doesn't being arrested in the UK put you at a disadvantage when it comes to getting a job?

[@calgar42k]

it s the exact same process , that s why people funding those campaigns should arrested for funding terrorism !

[@ParrotsTT]

Some people weren't bullied enough in school and it shows

[@SiliconBong]

Thank you for saying something i've waited all my life to figure out. *always feel a small sense of cosmic justice when I hear someone who was a tyrant on the schoolyard is struggling with reality.

[@islesofurth1]

This just goes to show how important it is to improve education. If people can't understand the ramifications of such actions. They are not properly educated. Just that one tanker has the potential to increase petrol prices substantially for an entire suburbian region. Coupled together with interest rate rises, you have a recipe for disaster. Not even going to bother going into electric vehicles.

[@johnbrennan7175]

It all comes down to cost. The general public can't afford to spend thousands on electric vehicles etc. Plastics are a byproduct of oil. What is the alternatives? The truth is, the world could collaps without oil and it takes money to change. Money that many people dont have to change to alternatives

[@ocean6462]

@@johnbrennan7175 this year or next is when electric cars will reach parity in cost with their gas counterparts for new vehicles so that won't be the case much longer. And that is their goal, to cause fuel shortages at gas stations and general disruption to make people listen and demand more climate action from the government. But yes I agree it's about cost. So the government should raise the carbon fee and dividend if they actually want to reduce oil consumption. This would put money from the tax back into people's pockets. Or they could phase in the mandates for zero emission vehicles more quickly. You're saying they're uneducated but their cause is real, and important, and disruption is their goal

[@scytheoflife1947]

Mate a single tanker is not effecting the oil prices that is total nonsense and vastly oversimplifies not just how markets work but specifically oil. A tanker is a literal drop in the ocean its like saying blocking a single truck of tomatoes will increase tomato prices across that region. It wont its not effecting the actual price but instead the ability to transport (on a tiny and brief scale/timeline) and then just like they have been doing for petrol prices for decades will use literally anything as an excuse to charge more then resist lowering the price again until absolutely forced to do so. It isnt that the prices went up but instead greedy companies see a opening to increase profits. Anyone who tells you a single tanker is that important in the supply chain is lying!

[@eugenetswong]

Education is not the answer. People don't work like that.

[@duckydashcam751]

Heading to meetings by cars (which use/made by using oil), eating food which is transported by using vehicles (using or made by using oil)...when they do stop using oil, they'll be moaning about supply chains to the government...well done you tools.

[@michaelmardis3333]

Stopping oil is noble, however the amount of products that use oil or have a product made from oil is impossible to replace at the current moment.

[@SStupendous]

Gradually replacing would befar more intelligent than JUST STOPPING oil, causing a million other issues by doing so.

[@upendasana7857]

@@SStupendous Thats not what they are asking for though,its just that the government is not transitioning and investing in alternatives quickly enough and is continuing with their policy of new oil and gas..maybe this message is not coming across clear enough

[@___hannah.]

​@@upendasana7857yeah I think they need to make that clearer

[@calgar42k]

oh so it s impossible to just stop oil ....

[@canislatrans8285]

We can start with going back to glass bottles. Not having almost everything made thousands of miles away, but within your country or neighboring countries, which cuts down shipping fuel usage. Like it used to be 50 years ago. Also office jobs should all be remote, which cuts down greatly on use of gasoline. We saw during pandemic lockdowns how the air started being cleaner.

[@RudiTheMan]

These people makes all those homeless jobless guys that sleep on the streets look better,

[@Fabian-Wenzel]

It won't be long before people get run over, but that won't be the driver's fault, it's the fault of people taking to the streets in heavy traffic.

[@Aviator2224]

I am not talking from a view of knowledge in this area but it will take us a long time to just stop using oil. I understand that there are a lot of ramifications when oil is used. However, currently we just don’t have a suitable alternative. Sadly, when we do they are just too expensive. Money and time needs to be spend carrying out research to find suitable alternatives which will not take a long time to roll out and at an affordable cost. A lot of thing that we use on a daily basis need oil. If we just suddenly stop it it will impact the lives of billions all over the world. However I wish we did not have such a huge dependence on oil. It is sadly a necessary evil for the foreseeable time. Or am I totally wrong in thinking like this?

[@zhuotongchen6449]

I think you are completely right. I agree with what you've said, I know and understand that there are alternatives but it is, as you've said, too expensive. We need to wait for it to become a usual commodity before we could implement these more drastic changes.

[@richardjohnson5529]

look at the amout of police that turn up, were are they when you are getting mugged or your house being broken into?

[@macmachine]

Wow! You guys are so into yourselves!

[@tonisiret5557]

Why target the British Public? Shouldn't you be sitting outside politicians homes, or flying to OPEC countries & protesting there?! You won't, because you're afraid! But you'll gladly ruin Joe Bloggs day. You've got the wrong people 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@lionalpruit9228]

'Risking a heavy fine', no. As long as these groups are useful to the government and the establishment press, they won't suffer too much inconvenience.

[@checkzombie4024]

“This is for the children” sickening me

[@carldavies2237]

YOU CANT JUST STOP OIL!!!! Nearly all items made for the NHS / Medical are oil based.

[@Thepotato650]

If theres no more oil then most machinery will cease to work after a while

[@SStupendous]

That's a really basic understanding of it, but yeah, and many more issues.

[@littledikkins2253]

Where I live this would be hijacking and kidnapping. And I live in California.

[@fajarsetiawan8665]

Lol. If this is in the US, the cops would just go BAM!!!!

[@SStupendous]

I mean, they wouldn't really. Think about if it was India or Bulgaria they tried this at...

[@arthursandomine5464]

How daft can someone get?

[@LaserBread]

Self aware, I see.

[@maz7953]

One message: Just stop oil *proceeds to leave macdonalds*

[@Robert-cu9bm]

In a van!

[@talkstrainings6169]

Just to let you know that was very much not the plan, we got pinned down by a helicopter and 2 drones so the primary approach on foot got scuppered. McDonald’s ended up being the only meeting point open at 3 am that didn’t look too weird having that number of people milling around. Far from ideal, but you work with what you’ve got x

[@NN-tb2py]

@@talkstrainings6169 excuses

[@DicksonMaimouth]

@@talkstrainings6169 that doesn’t explain your use of the van and use of fossil fuels.

[@SStupendous]

@@talkstrainings6169 Your channel is really new, and there's nothing to verify the idea you were here... can you prove this in any way? Any veracity to show?

[@Snow_Dog-px1qu]

The second these nutters get violent they'll get beaten by the public

[@simonl2072]

The great thing about convincing yourself you're right is you only ever have to think one thing. It's interlectual cowardice.

[@UniverseCalls]

If they want to stop oil, why are they not collaborating to find out alternatives through research and development and then promoting and advertising a healthier, safer and better alternative as a group of protestors, instead of harassing the general public and wasting time.

[@christopherswartz4116]

I’m going to triple my oil consumption this weekend, just to offset the efforts of these mental weaklings

[@tomtom3889]

10/10

[@averyboccella2390]

30/10

[@heya213]

extremely based

[@bonysminiatures3123]

yup me too i will in fact quadruple my efforts

[@LaserBread]

Breaking: Tory destroying the planet to own the libs!!

[@Rosie_The_Border_Collie]

Just stop oil = disaster. Don’t get me wrong, I do disagree on use of oil. Instead of coming together to protest and harass. Start a company that creates energy without using oil. Do something useful with your time

[@jayz8839]

Why do you agree? Show your evidence. (claiming ‘experts said so’ is not evidence btw).

[@Ihawk727]

Do these people know the amount of thing we use oil for all if the things we make that are made using oil like rubber tires, plastic and some of the parts in silicone chips in our computers and other smart devices.

[@leeshaw375]

I wonder how many of these people drive cars.

[@arthursandomine5464]

Thank you for this great documentary.

[@jemjem478]

It’s funny to me they talking about insulation and oils etc yet they seem to be using a lot themselves such as the lady in the house unless her whole house is solar powered or something hunny you using oils minerals etc to heat ur house to put the lights on

[@-xirx-]

Least their not sat at home eating crisps and watching love Island. Hope for the future...

[@1Geeked]

But I like crisps 😔

[@butteredtoast6510]

They are going to loose their minds when they figure out how lithium ion batteries are mined 🤯

[@TheProfCad]

Telling your version of what you believe is the truth.

[@aneesh8963]

There is no way we can stop 100percent of the oil, thats fantasy

[@luminouskiwi1104]

Exactly these people live in fantasy worlds, the world doesn’t work that way

[@LaserBread]

Okay. It sure can be *_significantly_* cut down.

[@aspiknf]

@@LaserBread Agreed

[@aahhh3207]

Stop oil by driving in an automobile

[@cheesegrater..]

idk about you guys but going onto a live f1 track when cars are going 150+mph isnt the smartest.

[@eedmond1289]

I blame the universities and media for pushing such nonsensical info. If you are going to fight something fight to stop geoengineering which should be your main target

[@chrischarlescook]

Don't look up

[@justsomeoneinthecommentsse5249]

Wouldn't it be awful if one of these tanker drivers accidently lost control of his vehicle and plowed through a bunch of these "protestors".

[@ktelite]

Nahhh everything have consequences. I feel sorry for the truck driver though

[@howardknight2469]

Can i ask,do all of these people lead by example and do not own cars,motorcycles or use any form of public transport?

[@patlong8449]

Or wear any clothing produced by, or from oil.

[@LaserBread]

Dear liberals, You hate the system, yet you are forced to participate in it. Curious. Sorry, your claims of so-called "hypocrisy" are invalid.

[@anthonymeredith7517]

looks cold get the fire brigade out with the water cannons

[@jacquesmostert3942]

I think most people agree with your sentiment but not your methods.

[@bugsygoo]

Too all those people who think that protest is fine but direct action isn't, please explain a better way of stopping an oncoming climate catastrophe, because protesting hasn't worked.

[@LeonardoTheMomo]

Over 300 climate activists are murdered or dissapear in South America every year while trying to stop the Amazon Rainforest deforestation and selling of the land. All while peacefully protesting. Peaceful protest is not working.

[@marcellorudofsky3633]

straight up

[@lazyeyedwolf5284]

Yup let's start this up in the USA gotta make the government listen I'm going off the grid soon I have nothing to lose but besides our valuable earth.

[@Robert-cu9bm]

Voting!

[@bugsygoo]

@@Robert-cu9bm And that has successfully led us to cut emissions to a level where we won't have catastrophic climate change has it? No, of course it hasn't. That is incredibly naive.

[@avoidingtrees6692]

I am not an extremist. But I wonder how they will make sure that people and goods keeps traveling the world As it is the most vital link our humanity keeps thriving. Cheers from France

[@flightlesslord2688]

See this is better than insulating oil in my opinion. Disrupting and attacking the problem, doing protests like the one at the footy match, that arent severely inconveniencing to any important needs of the general public. Buuut, is this being talked about as much. Who knows

[@emarie1968]

I remember hearing of a time when elite , rich ,out of touch snobs controlled everything. While mocking the peasants. That led to the invention of the guillotine .

[@joparks2509]

When protesters scream "just stop oil" after having a greasy breakfast at McDonalds. 🤣🤣🤣

[@ardler_arab6114]

Keep pumping oil

[@GTsuji]

Anyone who says “just stop oil” reveals a level of ignorance that is incomprehensible.

[@richardjohnson5529]

its boris and his big business friends that are the criminals

[@Gianfranco_69]

Meets in McDonalds..... i am saying nothing

[@younowhythatis6381]

And they drive to every protest. In a car.running on oil.oh....the irony.

[@Carlium]

Nah, you could just say "how was that banner made?" ( Or clothes )

[@SStupendous]

@@Carlium What about the products they routinely use each day? Exactly!

[@random6033]

"You want to change society, yet you live in the society - hypocrite"

[@jayceew3010]

The irony of their clothing and signage being petroleum based is absolutely not lost on me. The tone-deafness and self righteousness is grotesque.

[@billmclaurin6959]

They are the most hated group in the nation.

[@davepeacock8663]

Amazing they meet at MacDonalds, traveling in a taxi that needs the oil they want to stop.

[@Ben-ec6gr]

Just keep driving they will move

[@victoriaregina8344]

Everytime i hear of their activities i buy a liter of gasoline to dump in the sea.

[@TheAlbinoskunk]

"It's two thousand and twenty.... two"

[@BernardCouvreur]

shouting "stop oil" but still driving cars, aren't we ?

[@ajcurran100]

Who is this journalist? I love his style

[@eedmond1289]

Action to stop geoengineering should be studied, not stopping the use of all hydrocarbons, which will cost the lives of millions of people

[@beaudenoir]

"I would join a protest online, on social media" She is ready to do some harmless virtual signaling. :D

[@cheriefsadeksadek2108]

This is What Happens When you Give people Too Much Freedom

[@MICKEYISLOWD]

Are you serious? The more freedom the better. You want suppression?

[@LaserBread]

They're conservatives. Naturally they want less freedom.

[@Kaylas1821]

​@@MICKEYISLOWDif some people lack common sense (like those activists) - then yes.

[@cheriefsadeksadek2108]

@Andy Huckle what are you talking about ??

[@robertellis6413]

There are far far far too many vehicles on our roads and that's annoying

[@balls9420]

Dont get me wrong. Just stop oil should be protesting where the Government is. But alot of the people in the comments dont understand what the "stop" part is. Its to stop new oil sites opening not stop all oil together.

[@mikaela12979]

And how will that work on the long run? The demand increases, the supply shortens, the prices sky rocket and the ordinary people suffer.

[@balls9420]

@@mikaela12979 I'm no economist so I wont answer. However ordinary people are already suffering, remember the cost of living crisis? I believe if we never left the EU the situation we would be in a situation half as bad or not in this situation situation at all. I still believe those votes were rigged.

[@karenjhine]

The middle class feels entitled to cheap petrol, cheap air travel, and cheap meat. Politicians won't implement climate action policies until they think the majority is willing to change their lifestyle.

[@grizcuz]

Unfortunately, I think you're right, but like that oil tanker driver in the video, these types of protest hit the working classes attempting to do their jobs. It's not having any impact on the families flying away to their holiday homes in Tuscany. It's been proven that the wealthiest use a disproportionately large percentage of all the carbon across the planet. I'd be more sympathetic if those people were the targets rather than ordinary people just trying to make a living. Whilst I also accept that unless there's radical changes, everybody is going to be negatively affected by a massive amount. And like most things, the poorest across the planet will be hit the hardest.

[@gregorymalchuk272]

Why should the middle class give up the highest standard of living humanity has yet known? Especially when hydraulic fracturing means there are hundreds of years of oil and gas in the ground. We should use these to boostrap civilization to fission and fusion energy, but we shouldn't strangle our energy supply now.

[@johnpembroke9869]

😂 ok KAREN

[@blacklisted4885]

the middle class feel entitled to take everyone else's cars away you mean

[@deepdickchopra3662]

Why do you believe you are entitled to it, in light of what we now now?

[@CallousCoder]

Just keep rolling on if they don’t go out of the way it’s their problem.

[@boblester8641]

Why not protest in Moscow or Beijing

[@jumpierbook205]

Aren't these are the people who stormed on to the Silverstone track.

[@CaptainSlow2469]

Yep

[@paptapto22]

Every social change has to be obstructive or violent. They're no different than fighting for the rights of women, LGBT people, race, disability...

[@napalmhotdog4365]

Or the black shirts, the communists and so on

[@seanbrazell7095]

Oil isn't an inherent characteristic of a human being being oppressed by bigoted jerks. Oil is ITSELF required to create the technology necessary to end its use, and to stop global warming. If it suddenly wasn't available the world would no longer have the luxury of excess resources to deploy on long term change, nor the will to do so.

[@StuartOliver83]

No

[@happyjonn9242]

trying to force political change through the threat of violence is literally the definition of terrorism.

[@darth6466]

Violent disabled people

[@msallehuddinsoeb]

Many thing those people use coming from oil and gas industry! Fertilizer, mobile device etc!

[@willyhwang1059]

kindergarden teachers warned the kids be careful playing on the streets

[@marklimbrick]

I tried two petitions to parliament asking for standing charges to be removed from gas and electric, so using less cost less. Only a few hundred signatures. Protest needs a simple one message and these xr actions are doing the best they can. Of course not perfect. But neither are professional elected politicians.

[@mattvanders]

“Just stop oil” but they don’t come up with an alternative or a solution to it. And they wonder why the general public aren’t on their side

[@sblahful]

There's plenty of alternatives to oil. Electric cars. Hydrogen planes. Bio-plastics. The solutions exist, but money and politics are actively blocking change out dragging their heels. Edit - transition to nuclear and renewables for the electricity

[@mattvanders]

where does the electricity come from to power these electric car (and if you say wind and solar my next question is how do you charge then on a windless evening?). And that’s before to start rapeing Africa of it cobalt to produce the batteries. How do you make hydrogen and store it (i’m know quite a bit about this and am in favour with the use of wind power. Problem is you’re still replying on the oil and gas companies in a different way)? Do know who did the most for the environment in recent years, the Chinese government and how they handed covid, stopped all unnecessary travel to and from work or country to country travel.

[@Robert-cu9bm]

@@sblahful And the oil that lubricates the gears in those cars? How about the diesel used to dig up the ore for the raw materials?. Or the oil in the transformers on the electricity grid? Even the coal in the steel?. Please learn how the REAL world actually works.

[@PizzaKingg]

dont even slow down, i bet they start scrabling out of the way

[@Jack-Peters99]

I love the ending XD

[@mariastevens1774]

We are aware that Fossill Fuels are causing harm. BUT ,what is the alternative ? At the present there is no alternative.

[@michaelharrison3602]

They're not doing this for the children They're just trying to get their faces on screen and impress each other

[@55skonge55]

just stop eating McDonalds !

[@greentroll9326]

these ppl expect the world to run on the power of farts

[@CharleyOlivesss]

The problem is the government for allowing this to occur with no consequences here in the States that would not fly they treat these people like children

[@dollarinhand3443]

Do not worry about emissions from businesses what we need to worry about is the emissions from rich people Private planes, huge Yachts multiple houses to heat and cool as well as build these are the people who are hurting the environment, Billionaire Bill alone travels more than 213,000 miles by plane producing 1600 tones of Green House Gases not counting his mega Yacht and multiple houses.

[@jeanmitchell5834]

Great point

[@sarahhumphreys3980]

Instead of disrupting traffice why cant they come up with some viable solutions or alternatives to oil that could be put in place over time? And send these solutions and alternatives to the powers that be to see if they can be implimented.

[@bimbo-yw6ny]

these dudes are dressed in oil, what kind of activist are??

[@demolitionsexpert]

they need to go to where the law makers and execs are to protest, this is just going to end with some needless violence