The climate action group Just Stop Oil has announced that it is to disband at the end of April saying it has won because its demand that there should be no new oil and gas licences is now government policy. Rubbish and greenwash. In July 2024 Extinction Rebellion founder Roger Hallam and four Just Stop Oil members were jailed after being found guilty of conspiracy to block the M25. Hallam, 58, was given five years and Cressida Gethin, 22, Daniel Shaw, 38, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu, 35, and Louise Lancaster, 58, were each given four years. Prosecutors pointed out that their plans had crippled the motorway, endangered lives, blocked ambulances and caused serious disruption. This demonstration alone cost the economy £765,000 and the Metropolitan Police £1.1million. These well-merited sentences, later slightly reduced, did the trick since JSO and other eco-warriors groups have gone strangely quiet.
What the UK does or doesn’t do is minuscule, so will JSO now be demonstrating in China, India, the US, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Iraq, Brazil, Qatar, Iran and many more countries which harvest oil, gas and coal, or are they eco-cowards?
Clark Cross
Linlithgow
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