32 Just Stop Oil
No environmental campaign group got more people talking last year than Just Stop Oil. Their approach – closing roads, attacking art, scaling buildings – created conflicted reactions, but it brought focus to the crisis we’re in. To avert planetary catastrophe the group is calling for a government commitment to end all new licences for the exploration, development and production of fossil fuels in the UK.
“Another year has gone by and the stakes continue to rise,” Just Stop Oil spokesperson Sean Irish told The Big Issue. “We have seen this government’s failings with the cost of living, energy, and climate crises; 2023 needs to be the year of civil resistance. If this government will not grant us a liveable future then, like movements of the past, we will remove our consent to be governed and act in non-violent civil resistance until our rights are respected and protected.
