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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Elizabeth Cripps

Is civil disobedience OK if it’s the only way to prevent climate catastrophe?

Just Stop Oil activists blockade the Kingsbury oil terminal in Warwickshire, 3 April 2022.
Just Stop Oil activists blockade the Kingsbury oil terminal in Warwickshire, 3 April 2022. Photograph: Jacob King/PA

This week, climate activists disrupted the UK’s oil supply, because they believe they face a desperate choice. Nonviolent resistance now, or the unthinkable violence of climate change later.

“There is a need to break the law,” says Just Stop Oil’s Melissa Carrington, “so we are not guilty of greater crime.” But is she right?

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