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  • Just Stop Oil responds to The Last Leg’s call for disruption of every event.. With disruption of The Last Leg

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    Just Stop Oil disrupt Channel 4's live comedy show 'The Last Leg' 14 July 2023.
    Just Stop Oil disrupt Channel 4’s live comedy show ‘The Last Leg’ 14 July 2023.

    Three Just Stop Oil supporters have disrupted the TV comedy talk show, the Last Leg on Channel 4. They are demanding that the UK government halt any new licensing or consents for oil, gas and coal extraction in the UK.

    At around 10.00pm, three Just Stop Oil supporters ran onto the set of the Last Leg, during the live show, in a cloud of confetti and jigsaw pieces blasting the song ‘Hit Me Baby One More Time’ by Britney Spears- in reference to the viral video featured on the program last week. The three supporters thanked the Last Leg presenters, Adam Hills, Josh Widdicome and Alex Brooker for their support and gifted them their own hi-vis vests.

    Tonight’s action comes after the presenters called for a disruption before every sporting event on last week’s show. 

    A Just Stop Oil spokesperson said:

    “Be careful what you wish for! Thanks to the Last Leg for their kind words of support. We have taken on board their suggestion to provide disruptions before every event, and have decided to begin with The Last Leg. We would like to extend an invite to Adam, Alex and Josh to join us on the streets next week, as we continue demanding an end to new oil, gas and coal licences in the UK.”

    One of those taking action today, Kush Naker, 33, a doctor of infectious disease from London, said:

    “I’d like to thank The Last Leg’s Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker for their support of Just Stop Oil’s action at Wimbledon last week, and their proposal to take time at every sporting event to highlight the climate crisis. We need to be taking non-violent action everywhere and all the time in order to force this cruel and inept government to make the only sensible decision which is to end all new oil and gas licences”

    “I love The Last Leg, this action is not against them in any way, but in fact an opportunity to invite the hosts of the show and all its viewers to join us in civil resistance against this criminal government.”

    William John Ward, 66, a retired civil engineer from Epsom, who gained notoriety by throwing a jigsaw and confetti at Wimbledon, last week, said:

    “I don’t want my grandchildren, nieces and nephews to suffer. Right now, millions of people are being forced to live in conditions that are beyond those necessary to support human life.”

    “I can’t let this happen. I’ve had five meetings with my MP, Chris Grayling, and he simply doesn’t get it. He doesn’t seem to understand the warnings from the United Nations, from the International Energy Agency and from the governments’ own climate change committee. I have no choice but to get the message out in whatever way I can. I’m retired and want to enjoy my retirement, but I feel I have no choice but to take action. I’ve tried everything else.”

    https://youtu.be/_jUU1bm3w84

  • Tens of thousands to descend on Westminster this weekend in biggest protest against climate inaction

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    Activists from Extinction Rebellion demonstrate on Oxford Street in central London. Picture date: Saturday April 9, 2022.

    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/tens-thousands-descend-westminster-weekend-biggest-protest-against-climate-inaction

    TENS of thousands of people are expected to descend on Westminster this weekend to join Britain’s biggest ever protest against the combined climate emergency and political crisis.

    The four-day action organised by Extinction Rebellion (XR), which will be joined by actors, authors, musicians, trade unionists and human rights activists, is demanding that the government takes immediate action to tackle the linked crises.

    “People’s pickets” were formed outside 16 government buildings earlier today to kick off the campaign of protest, calling for urgent new policies to tackle the climate emergency affecting people and communities across the country.

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    Further details can be found on the XR website.

    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/tens-thousands-descend-westminster-weekend-biggest-protest-against-climate-inaction

  • Climate crisis reality check

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    26 Nov 22: There is an updated post here

    You are welcome to disagree with any point although I contend that it is clear.

    The climate is fekked. We’ve witnessed extreme weather events on every continent. The climate is fekked because governments worldwide refused to act and instead facilitated rich people – as corporate entities or individuals – fekking it.

    Big oil has known for decades that it was fekking the planet and continued regardless.

    Thousand of people have already died due to the climate getting destroyed by rich people and governments and thousands more will die. Governments are still failing to accept reality and address the climate crisis. Some have started to in small measure.

    People should be held to account for their actions and inactions. People are likely to get killed over it whether legally i.e through a legally sanctioned death penalty, or not.

    The US has historically had and the UK repeatedly has and continues to elect political leaders who are incompetent through imbecility.

    We are going to suffer extreme food shortages due to the climate being fekked.

    Everything is blamed on Russia. Ukraine is not the only place that grows food. Harvests throughout Europe have / will fail.

    We should try to make sure that politicians responsible for fekking the climate and planet are not re-elected.

    I’m sorry to say that it’s clearly going to get worse.

  • We’re occupying schools across the world to protest climate inaction

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    Youth activists involved in End Fossil: Occupy!

    We can’t keep sitting in school, pretending everything is all right, and studying as if the planet wasn’t on fire

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    The bottom line is: we can’t keep pretending everything is all right, studying as if the planet wasn’t on fire. As other students did before us – from the students of May of ’68 in France to the Arab spring, from the Chilean Penguin Revolution and Primavera Secundarista in Brazil to Occupy Wall Street, we will stop our business-as-usual lives to show our governments and society that we need to change everything, now. From Lisbon to California, from Peru to Germany and from Madrid to Ivory Coast, we call on young people to get together and organize an international revolutionary generation that can change the system.

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  • COP26 News review day 8

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    Obama implores world leaders to ‘step up now’ to avert climate disaster

    Barack Obama has called on world leaders to “step up and step up now” to avert climate breakdown, singling out China and Russia for being foremost among countries that are failing to cut planet-heating emissions quickly enough.

    Obama said that while progress has been made at the Glasgow climate talks, including significant pledges made by countries to reduce methane emissions and to end deforestation, “we are nowhere near where we need to be at” in cutting emissions and that “most nations have failed to be as ambitious as they need to be”.

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    HSBC led big banks’ charge against climate change action

    HSBC coordinated efforts to try and water down action on climate change in the banking sector by seeking to delay a key deadline and scrap mandatory science-based targets for a major net-zero alliance, the Bureau can reveal.

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    Revealed: 1,000 fossil fuel and big business reps at COP26

    Nearly 1,000 representatives from the fossil fuel industry, big business and nuclear power companies have registered to attend the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, according to an analysis by The Ferret.

    They include executives from Shell, BP, Equinor, Chevron, Total, Gazprom and other major oil and gas companies, as well as multinational corporations such as McDonald’s, Bayer, Walmart, HSBC, PepsiCo, Nestlé and Microsoft.

    There are also delegations from the coal industry, tobacco companies and pesticide manufacturers. Eleven people from two climate sceptic think-tanks have registered for the summit.

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    Wera Hobhouse MP: Tory fossil fuel funding is delaying an end date for fossil fuels

    ‘As long as we have a Government dominated by vested interests, the UK will make no progress on climate action.’

    Wera Hobhouse is the Liberal Democrats’ justice spokesperson and MP for Bath.

    To reach net zero, we need an end date for the use of fossil fuels. Yet, the Government is taking us backwards on tackling climate change. Any wonder when they are bankrolled by fossil fuel interests and climate sceptics? As long as we have a Government dominated by vested interests, the UK will make no progress on climate action. 

    Earlier this week, an investigation revealed that the Conservative party and its MPs received £1.3m in gifts and donations from climate sceptics and fossil fuel interests since the election in 2019. 

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    How the UK Government is funnelling billions into fossil fuel projects abroad

    While spinning itself as a ‘leader’ in fighting climate change, the UK is funnelling billions into climate wrecking fossil fuel projects overseas

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