The right to protest is the right to make people aware of your views.
It isn’t the right to force everyone else to do what you tell them.
We can’t Just Stop Oil, our entire economy depends on it at the moment, and destroying the economy to that extent would cause a vast amount of suffering and a massive number of deaths (inability to produce, import, and deliver food and other vital products, no heating in most homes, many industries collapsing causing mass unemployment with all that brings, the NHS and other services being unable to function, and many more things).
How much disruption are we supposed to put up while a small group of people attempt to force us down a road that will cause immediate disaster?
I understand their aims and agree that we should move to renewable energies in the long term but how can we just stop using oil now without the economy going into complete shambles?
The cost of living would be 1000x what is now.
I agree we should be working towards not needing oil and gas but saying we should stop using it overnight immediately is ridiculous.
We absolutely need to stop using oil, however we sadly cannot do so overnight. We are just too dependent on petroleum to do so overnight, or even within a year or a decade. Oil is a necessary evil for now, if successive governments had invested in renewables to a wide extent 30+ years then we might be in a position to stop oil much sooner than we can now. As much as we should protest the continued use of oil, we need to protest the lack of investment in renewables just as much.
If only petulant middle-class teens and their mid-life crisis-suffering parents would learn to *read the room*.
I can only assume people in this ‘Just stop Oil’ group are either
A) so wealthy that forking out 50 grand on an EV is nothing to them or
B) can’t drive.
Give me an example in history where anything has ever changed without someone smashing things up, or causing illegal disruption?
Few more days and this will be disaster in UK, emergency services, HGV delivering food will go in to standstill because of their “brave” actions. I really hope this organisation in court will be treated as terrorism.
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The right to protest is the right to make people aware of your views.
It isn’t the right to force everyone else to do what you tell them.
We can’t Just Stop Oil, our entire economy depends on it at the moment, and destroying the economy to that extent would cause a vast amount of suffering and a massive number of deaths (inability to produce, import, and deliver food and other vital products, no heating in most homes, many industries collapsing causing mass unemployment with all that brings, the NHS and other services being unable to function, and many more things).
How much disruption are we supposed to put up while a small group of people attempt to force us down a road that will cause immediate disaster?
I understand their aims and agree that we should move to renewable energies in the long term but how can we just stop using oil now without the economy going into complete shambles?
The cost of living would be 1000x what is now.
I agree we should be working towards not needing oil and gas but saying we should stop using it overnight immediately is ridiculous.
We absolutely need to stop using oil, however we sadly cannot do so overnight. We are just too dependent on petroleum to do so overnight, or even within a year or a decade. Oil is a necessary evil for now, if successive governments had invested in renewables to a wide extent 30+ years then we might be in a position to stop oil much sooner than we can now. As much as we should protest the continued use of oil, we need to protest the lack of investment in renewables just as much.
If only petulant middle-class teens and their mid-life crisis-suffering parents would learn to *read the room*.
I can only assume people in this ‘Just stop Oil’ group are either
A) so wealthy that forking out 50 grand on an EV is nothing to them or
B) can’t drive.
Give me an example in history where anything has ever changed without someone smashing things up, or causing illegal disruption?
Few more days and this will be disaster in UK, emergency services, HGV delivering food will go in to standstill because of their “brave” actions. I really hope this organisation in court will be treated as terrorism.