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To think Just Stop Oil are showing up serious security breaches?

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WildUnchartedWaters · 18/07/2023 15:09

Maybe I'm missing something, because I dont understand what JSO are doing apart from turning everyone against their cause apart from looking idiotic with their slow walking.

But watching the coverage of them at Wimbledon, the snooker, the rugby and the Chelsea Flower show, what is to stop them (or anyone else) doing far more damage?

Given they dont mind blocking ambulances whilst people die, it's not out of possibility that they might do something far more serious. Where is tbe security?

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DdraigGoch · 22/07/2023 16:46

AIBot · 22/07/2023 07:53

Their campaign is working because people are now talking about the issues. There are now multiple threads on the environment where there wouldn’t have been before.

No one has seen a JSO protest on the TV and said "actually, it had never occurred to me before but climate change is a real problem". People aren’t talking about the issues, they're talking about the protestors.

DdraigGoch · 22/07/2023 16:54

AIBot · 22/07/2023 14:43

They are trying to do something and are succeeding at putting climate into peoples’ conversations. The clowns are the politicians in the pay of the oil and gas industry. They are heaping misery onto us all.

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They are putting themselves into people's conversations. If people are talking about the environment itself, it's not thanks to them.

Middlelanehogger · 22/07/2023 17:15

People saying their conscience is clear because they recycle and turn the lights off when they can.

I'm sorry but if you genuinely think that climate change is going to lead to war, famine, everything up to and including imminent extinction of the human race, you need to be doing a hell of a lot more than that

You need to be retraining as an electrical engineer and doing R&D to develop new energy source extraction methods, working on carbon capture techniques, optimising global shipping lanes or refitting industrial factories to use minimal resources, etc. You need to be getting into jobs like the PP who worked for the civil service working on these kinds of projects.

THIS IS THE EXTINCTION OF THE HUMAN RACE WE ARE (SUPPOSEDLY) TALKING ABOUT

If you support JSO/XR etc and you work as a receptionist in a school or whatever sorry but I don't believe you really care that much.

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WildUnchartedWaters · 22/07/2023 17:22

DdraigGoch · 22/07/2023 16:46

No one has seen a JSO protest on the TV and said "actually, it had never occurred to me before but climate change is a real problem". People aren’t talking about the issues, they're talking about the protestors.

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Bingo

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WildUnchartedWaters · 22/07/2023 17:24

LakieLady · 22/07/2023 16:00

I think it's pretty disgraceful not to let emergency service vehicles through; I went on a lot of marches and protests before I got too old and decrepit, and never saw an ambulance or fire engine held up. Marchers would always make way and let them through.

Although I recognise that stopping the use of oil completely isn't feasible, I still think that the JSO serve a useful function in raising awareness that we need to use alternatives wherever possible. And even if I didn't, I think the right to protest is a fundamental one in a democracy, and we restrict it at our peril.

I had to chuckle at a clip someone showed me of a woman screaming at a JSO protest that she was going to miss her flight because of them. As if they were going to be sympathetic to someone who was a) flying and b) driving to the airport from central London, when all 3 airports are well served by public transport.

Jso dont serve a function at all
as for laughing at a woman who is going to miss her flignt. Yeah, hilarious that. Absolutely side splitting.
You know nothing about why she is flying or driving, nor is it any of your business.

Youd fit right in with those idiots.

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