I do not like Just Stop Oil and have visibly on here spoken to people who have tried to poorly argue their case.
However I take issue with the vast majority of your post which is similarly (in my view) poorly argued.
They’re pointless?
I argue not. At some point in history they’ll be seen as early pioneers shouting into the wind.
their methods are poor and often ineffectual. But perhaps they are playing a long game. I don’t know the strategy (if there is any) behind it all.
Nothing they have done has prevented climate change,
Oh come on. Their hundred or so protests were never designed to “stop climate change” worldwide. You are destroying them by holding them to a standard they never had
in fact with all the paint and stopping traffic has massively contributed to it.
Massively? Are you sure? For an afternoon or a day. In a location in a country? That moved the dial? STOP IT
Just watched them throw paint around Heathrow, WHAT is that achieving? Except me wanting to go out tomorrow to buy shit tons of oil and wasting it all. In fact I might even put my recycling in the rubbish tonight because they fuck me off that much.
It’s this sort of “me first, DON’T EVER MAKE ME CHANGE” approach which they’re trying to combat. I know you’re being deliberately facetious but they are fighting our weird personal choices.
Look at the rise in SUVs for example. Everyone on here swears blind they need them - their mother or father can’t get into a low car, they need boot space for their hobbies, they need the ride clearance for the 1 day every 3 years it snows.
We can’t change people’s behaviours because people live according to their achievable standard of living and purchase power
Just Stop Oil are trying to change that narrative. I don’t like them or their methods, but I won’t try and rubbish them in a weakly argued way, just to make myself feel better.