| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:11 - Jun 19 with 5678 views | StokieBlue |
It's not paint, it's a cornflour based substance that will come off pretty easily.
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| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:17 - Jun 19 with 5630 views | Zx1988 |
They will lose public sympathy because the media (seemingly deliberately?) are misrepresenting what has actually been thrown at the monument.
As SB states, it is apparently dyed cornflour rather than paint, which should cause no damage to Stonehenge.
I think that even JSO are clued up enough to have made sure that this will create a spectacle, but no damage. |  |
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| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:18 - Jun 19 with 5615 views | Westover |
What I can't understand is why don't they get asked how they got to the place did they all walk or ride a bike ? Surely they didn't use oil. | | | |
| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:18 - Jun 19 with 5616 views | SitfcB |
I'm all for protest by bluelagos 19 Jun 2024 15:21and direct action, especially when it comes to climate change. In the absence of much political discourse I can see why they want to raise the issues they care about...
But seriously guys? Give yer head a wobble.
https://x.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1803397429430997228
Edit - thankfully it's not paint - per the JSO response. As you were.
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| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:21 - Jun 19 with 5583 views | SitfcB |
| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:11 - Jun 19 by StokieBlue |
It's not paint, it's a cornflour based substance that will come off pretty easily.
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Oh that’s alright then the smelly hippies. | |
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| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:29 - Jun 19 with 5518 views | hoppy |
SO "In a statement, Just Stop Oil said it was time for “megalithic action” and called for the next UK government to agree a plan to stop the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030.
It said: “Continuing to burn coal, oil and gas will result in the death of millions. We have to come together to defend humanity or we risk everything. That’s why Just Stop Oil is demanding that our next government sign up to a legally binding treaty to phase out fossil fuels by 2030.”
What does defacing Stonehenge, irrespective of whether it's dyed cornflour or paint, achieve towards that statement? |  |
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| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:31 - Jun 19 with 5507 views | Oldsmoker |
| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:18 - Jun 19 by SitfcB |
I'm all for protest by bluelagos 19 Jun 2024 15:21and direct action, especially when it comes to climate change. In the absence of much political discourse I can see why they want to raise the issues they care about...
But seriously guys? Give yer head a wobble.
https://x.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1803397429430997228
Edit - thankfully it's not paint - per the JSO response. As you were.
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I didn't read bluelagos post - it has an X page.
I use the Firefox browser with Noscript loaded and X doesn't like that as it's prevented from harvesting my profile so it stops any access. |  |
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| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:31 - Jun 19 with 5504 views | StokieBlue |
| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:29 - Jun 19 by hoppy |
SO "In a statement, Just Stop Oil said it was time for “megalithic action” and called for the next UK government to agree a plan to stop the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030.
It said: “Continuing to burn coal, oil and gas will result in the death of millions. We have to come together to defend humanity or we risk everything. That’s why Just Stop Oil is demanding that our next government sign up to a legally binding treaty to phase out fossil fuels by 2030.”
What does defacing Stonehenge, irrespective of whether it's dyed cornflour or paint, achieve towards that statement? |
It got you to read the statement.
If they hadn't performed their direct action you wouldn't have read any statement they put out today.
You've essentially proven that they do get more people exposed to their message via actions like this.
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| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:33 - Jun 19 with 5484 views | hoppy |
| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:31 - Jun 19 by StokieBlue |
It got you to read the statement.
If they hadn't performed their direct action you wouldn't have read any statement they put out today.
You've essentially proven that they do get more people exposed to their message via actions like this.
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Yes, but having read it, rather than just hearing the news bulletin, it made me think they're even more a bunch of tossers than I did previously for doing it. If that is their aim, then it was successful. | |
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| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:37 - Jun 19 with 5450 views | StokieBlue |
| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:33 - Jun 19 by hoppy |
Yes, but having read it, rather than just hearing the news bulletin, it made me think they're even more a bunch of tossers than I did previously for doing it. If that is their aim, then it was successful. |
You are entitled to think that but other people who read the statement may form a different opinion.
In the end many more people will read the statement and that is the aim and as I said, you are proof it works. The conclusion you draw from the statement is up to you.
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| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:38 - Jun 19 with 5433 views | BloomBlue |
That's because it's a well known fact the people who built Stonehenge used the first petrol powered engine. If it wasn't for them we wouldn't have climate change. |  | | |
| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:40 - Jun 19 with 5413 views | NthQldITFC |
Wrong target, right action. |  |
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| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:44 - Jun 19 with 5380 views | leitrimblue |
It's just some old stones covered in a bit of orange powder. They will be fine, they have seen plenty of action over the last 5000 years.
If people are upset about a little bit of orange spray wait til they find out about the plans to plough a tunnel through the middle of the neolithic ritual landscape that Stonehenge etc sit in |  | | |
| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:46 - Jun 19 with 5367 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:37 - Jun 19 by StokieBlue |
You are entitled to think that but other people who read the statement may form a different opinion.
In the end many more people will read the statement and that is the aim and as I said, you are proof it works. The conclusion you draw from the statement is up to you.
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Having read the statement I agree with Hoppy. Tossers. |  |
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| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:53 - Jun 19 with 5329 views | sirporter |
"In a statement, Just Stop Oil said it was time for “megalithic action” and called for the next UK government to agree a plan to stop the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030.
“Continuing to burn coal, oil and gas will result in the death of millions. We have to come together to defend humanity or we risk everything. That’s why Just Stop Oil is demanding that our next government sign up to a legally binding treaty to phase out fossil fuels by 2030.”
Oil and gas provide huge benefits to us all, particularly poorer nations and there is simply no substitute for many products made from petro chemicals that we all rely on/take for granted. If we stopped oil as they want It is hard to imagine the chaos that would ensue and the hardship.
It is not the oil companies that burn oil/gas it is us and those protestors would likely be the first to complain when the result of no oil/gas occurs.
Transition to new energy sources takes generations (take a look at history) and the current net zero drive requires huge amounts of fossil fuels to deliver any transition.
They have not thought it through or understand power generation, the cost, or the process needed to ensure a sensible planned approach. I would like to hear one of them explain the consequences of simply stopping oil. [Post edited 19 Jun 2024 16:55]
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| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 17:00 - Jun 19 with 5170 views | leitrimblue |
| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:38 - Jun 19 by BloomBlue |
That's because it's a well known fact the people who built Stonehenge used the first petrol powered engine. If it wasn't for them we wouldn't have climate change. |
Yer not far off. Prior to the neolithic ( approx 6000 years ago) the UK was inhabited by mesolithic hunter gatherers in almost inaccessible deep forest. The people of the neolithic were the first farmers in uk and set about deforesting the country in order to carry out farming. | | | |
| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 17:08 - Jun 19 with 5052 views | homer_123 |
| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:40 - Jun 19 by NthQldITFC |
Wrong target, right action. |
Farage? |  |
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| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 17:08 - Jun 19 with 5054 views | blueasfook |
| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:46 - Jun 19 by GlasgowBlue |
Having read the statement I agree with Hoppy. Tossers. |
They don't seem to be very good at understanding how to gain public support for their cause. Certainly stunts like this gets them noticed and talked about, but none of it in a positive way. I fully support their cause (ie. stopping the use of fossil fuels) but not the way they go about it. |  |
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| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 17:09 - Jun 19 with 5029 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:29 - Jun 19 by hoppy |
SO "In a statement, Just Stop Oil said it was time for “megalithic action” and called for the next UK government to agree a plan to stop the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030.
It said: “Continuing to burn coal, oil and gas will result in the death of millions. We have to come together to defend humanity or we risk everything. That’s why Just Stop Oil is demanding that our next government sign up to a legally binding treaty to phase out fossil fuels by 2030.”
What does defacing Stonehenge, irrespective of whether it's dyed cornflour or paint, achieve towards that statement? |
Raises awareness, as unfortunately there are many people who don’t care about climate change and others who actively work to deny it. There’s been hardly anything about it during the current campaigning period and it’s low on the priority list for many people. Yet lots of people can be convinced to worry about immigration. Well, climate change is going to lead to more migration.
They’re not winning many hearts and minds with this stunt, but it’s still the most important challenge facing humankind (and life as we know it on Earth). Or maybe 2nd most important after landing out transfer targets 🤷♂️ |  |
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| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 17:10 - Jun 19 with 5012 views | BlueBadger |
The environmental pressure group equivalent to PETA, innit. |  |
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| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 17:17 - Jun 19 with 4957 views | homer_123 |
| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 17:00 - Jun 19 by leitrimblue |
Yer not far off. Prior to the neolithic ( approx 6000 years ago) the UK was inhabited by mesolithic hunter gatherers in almost inaccessible deep forest. The people of the neolithic were the first farmers in uk and set about deforesting the country in order to carry out farming. |
And the Government subsidies back then were immense! | |
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| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 17:28 - Jun 19 with 4881 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 17:09 - Jun 19 by Swansea_Blue |
Raises awareness, as unfortunately there are many people who don’t care about climate change and others who actively work to deny it. There’s been hardly anything about it during the current campaigning period and it’s low on the priority list for many people. Yet lots of people can be convinced to worry about immigration. Well, climate change is going to lead to more migration.
They’re not winning many hearts and minds with this stunt, but it’s still the most important challenge facing humankind (and life as we know it on Earth). Or maybe 2nd most important after landing out transfer targets 🤷♂️ |
I hear their next stunt to gain public sympathy is to kidnap David Attenborough and send him back piece by piece until their demands are met. | |
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| I've seen the video.... on 17:30 - Jun 19 with 4863 views | Bloots |
| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 16:46 - Jun 19 by GlasgowBlue |
Having read the statement I agree with Hoppy. Tossers. |
....read the statement, read Hoppy's post, read yours and I agree.
A bunch of tossers. |  |
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| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 17:31 - Jun 19 with 4852 views | GlasgowBlue |
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| Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge with orange paint on 17:31 - Jun 19 with 4849 views | HatStand |
It will probably come off with a leaf blower | |
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