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Heydon Prowse

OPINION - Why won’t any of my fellow eco-protesters speak against Just Stop Oil?

Search “climate crisis” on Twitter and you’ll find floods and fires more apocalyptic than the Book of Exodus (but with more memes). Armageddon is here and it feels a little too broad to be a Left or Right issue. If you are a climate protester radical enough to get yourself arrested, then you should be radical enough to hear ideas that make you uncomfortable from people whose politics you hate if they might save the planet. And yet the intellectual curiosity of the most prominent environmental campaign group in the country can be summed up by its name: “Just Stop Oil!”

Recently an evil former oil industry guy named Tim Latimer brought us one step closer to a carbon-free future and, worst of all, he did it using nasty fracking technology! Latimer’s company Fervo Energy announced in July that it had passed all the necessary checks to make enhanced geothermal power a reality, decades ahead of schedule.

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