So it’s a not-so-fond farewell to Just Stop Oil, the soup-throwing, hand-gluing environmentalist troupe. According to JSO activist Hannah Hunt, who helped kick off the group’s campaign of infamy back in 2022, she and her comrades are calling it a day.
The reason? They’ve just been too successful.
‘Just Stop Oil’s demand to end new oil and gas is now government policy, making us one of the most successful civil-resistance campaigns in recent history’, says Hunt. ‘But it’s time to change.’
Tragically, they haven’t given up altogether. They intend to work on new groups and strategies to deliver the ‘revolution’ they believe we need to ‘protect us from the coming storms’ – presumably literal and figurative.
But we can only hope those new groups and strategies won’t be quite so infuriating as what JSO got up to. If that is even possible.
JSO, its predecessor Extinction Rebellion and its various other People’s Front of Judea-style offshoots, certainly blazed a new trail in direct-action activism.
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