It’s both really. JSO lies and your posts indicate you think new oil licenses/exploration & drilling are a problem that will worsen climate change when they really aren’t and won’t. They haven’t done in the U.K. for thirty years…
JSO’s biggest lies are
- the government has not only done nothing to combat climate change but has deliberately made things worse.
- that we have to stop all new oil, gas and coal extraction now to avert climate disasters
- that anyone who disagrees with them is guilty of genocide and they’ve compared us to Nazis
Every press release is lie after lie after lie:
“We’re on course for collapse!” (Cutting emissions in half and a consistent downward trend is the opposite of being on course for collapse)
“This government is knowingly taking action that will kill hundreds of millions of people and destroy my future. They have made it clear that they value the profits of the few over the lives of the many.” (the actions they are actually taking is to cut emissions and wean us off fossil fuels for energy production…that’s saving lives not risking lives)
“Climate scientists are telling us the development of new oil, gas and coal projects will be beyond disastrous for humanity.” (No they’re really not. They’re saying not cutting CO2 and all GHG emissions will cause more disasters)
”I’ve been arrested today whilst standing against our government’s unbelievably corrupt and idiotic mishandling of the climate emergency” (see above, how is slashing CO2 and GHG emissions mishandling? It’s exactly what needs to be done)
“Climate collapse is here, now, you just have to look at the front page of the news. That means every fraction of a degree of warming matters, every tonne of carbon is more deaths and lives ruined. Our government knows that. Every day we see new and terrifying headlines, giving us a glimpse of the unliveable future they are pushing us towards.” (The reality is that the government have successfully and in the long term fought to avert this future.)
“Rishi Sunak and his government act like science-deniers even though they have access to the very latest climate science” (they really aren’t)
”“The giant hypocrisy is that the new oil and gas projects that the government has in the pipeline will cause migration like we’ve never seen before.” (No it won’t, it’s only to replace imports with domestic production and tap replacements for wells that are dry. Overall extraction and use will keep declining)
Their recent press release is total bullshit”Tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of people will die in the current heat storms. Any government that refuses to put it’s country on a war footing that sees emissions slashed and an urgent programme of adaptation introduced is criminally negligent” (Good thing our government has been cutting emissions…so this cannot be referring to the U.K. But JSO wants you to think that our government has done nothing) “We are heading towards 3 to 4°C of warming across this century, an absolute climate catastrophe for all species including our own. And all we are doing so far is giving rhetoric and optimism and greenwash.” (yes, that’s all it takes to cut CO2 emissions by almost half, and get from 0% to 50% of energy produced by zero carbon sources…a bit of rhetoric and green washing. This totally ignores the facts.)“I thought fossil fuel firms could change. I was wrong.” (she’s still wrong, have you even looked up all the green technology and renewable sources that the fossil fuel firms have developed? As one example, Shell invented and is flying carbon zero aeroplanes.)
The facts are clear. New oil and gas licensing in 2023 will kill hundreds of millions of people, adding to the already mounting global death toll from climate breakdown. It will push our climate, oceans and the living world beyond the point of no return, triggering runaway global heating and setting in motion an unstoppable process of global societal collapse. To know these facts and still encourage drilling for UK new oil and gas is reckless and immoral. There can be no greater crime. (Bullshit)
Since the declaration of a climate and environmental emergency by the British Parliament, in 2019, it has become obvious that our politicians and corporations have no intention of acting in accordance with the fundamental interests of either our young people or the country as a whole. (Bullshit, because as you know they’ve been cutting emissions and GHGs)
Whether those in charge realise that they are engaging in genocide, is not the question. For this is how it will be seen by the next generation and all future generations. Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi, at his trial in Jerusalem, sought to defend himself by saying that he never killed any Jews as he was only in charge of transporting them to the death camps. The judges overruled this obscene defence and he was hanged. (you’re a Nazi if you don’t join us)
Similarly, when those in charge today go to court in the coming years, they will claim that they only facilitated the continued use of fossil fuels. They never actually killed the starving poor of Sudan and Pakistan. And likewise the judgement will be the same – you knew what you were doing and you did not stop it. Justice will be done. (Proverbial hanging or literal? These guys are already unhinged)
To this end, from this moment forward, Just Stop Oil, working closely with lawyers, will publicly gather evidence against fossil fuel executives, bankers, ministers and officials and members of the legal and media professions who order, administrate or facilitate the exploitation of new oil and gas resources or who conspire to prosecute those taking action to prevent the greatest act of mass murder in human history. (we are making a list…)
We say to all these people, consider carefully your responsibilities to yourself, your family and the country. This is not a game. This is not a campaign for one small policy change. It is not just another protest. It is resistance against evil.
Face facts before it is too late. (Little frission of terrorising the public here)