Inconveniencing oil execs achieves absolutely nothing. You will never change someone’s opinion whose livelyhood depends on holding that opinion. The climate crisis will not be confronted by oil execs and any meaningful measures will not have their support. Protesting them is a waste of time.
The only way to achieve anything is to increase the immediate right-now cost of doing nothing over the cost of doing something. The cost in annoyance, money, time and for the people that can be persuaded, ie. the general public.
Ok - so one could say a ‘goal’ per se is decreasing attendance at events like this with the hope that it causes a change ? I can get behind that and believe that’s a rational reason to protest.
If all that’s true then my only real complaint is Just Stop Oil isn’t getting THAT message across effectively
Inconveniencing oil execs achieves absolutely nothing. You will never change someone’s opinion whose livelyhood depends on holding that opinion. The climate crisis will not be confronted by oil execs and any meaningful measures will not have their support. Protesting them is a waste of time.
The only way to achieve anything is to increase the immediate right-now cost of doing nothing over the cost of doing something. The cost in annoyance, money, time and for the people that can be persuaded, ie. the general public.
Ok - so one could say a ‘goal’ per se is decreasing attendance at events like this with the hope that it causes a change ? I can get behind that and believe that’s a rational reason to protest.
If all that’s true then my only real complaint is Just Stop Oil isn’t getting THAT message across effectively