
They’re back. The Metropolitan Police is bracing itself as Just Stop Oil kicks off a three-week campaign to bring what it calls disruption on an “unprecedented scale”.
No one can doubt for a moment that the cause is a worthy one. Just this week, climate scientists have warned that the 1.5C warming threshold could be breached this decade, far sooner than previously predicted. The world is experiencing record heat, and it is because of the greenhouse gasses humans are pumping into the atmosphere.