Don’t mean to cause an argument war in the comments so please stay civil. But it’s an interesting read.
Interfere with the industry that it is trying to upset. Frustrating the customers does little to stop the supply/demand of the market so oil keeps being produced and used.
Disrupt oil production. Upset oil deliveries. Frustrate the oil users.
Those are the end objectives that will change how the world uses oil. Now the organization name makes sense - it’s the start and sole cause of the movement. Now it can galvanize people to join by knowing the cause through a name that is a call to action. JSO does so much almost right that it feels like deliberate missteps each time JSO is in the news.
JSO can organize union drives to upset oil production. Rally the people behind it and the organization may see change from the inside. Or at least freak out the people in charge enough to see they need to change.
Dig troughs across oil access roads so maintenance crews can’t get to rigs. Make the cost of running the business so high that the people making decisions have to start addressing the activity. Frustrate the business.
Throwing soup at an icon of culture does nothing to highlight the goals, rally support, or stop the offending action. It ONLY gives oil protests a bad name while being completely unhelpful at stopping oil.
It looks like Just Stop Oil does all of those things according to their Wiki entry: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Stop_Oil
And all I ever see on the news is soup on art. So what do you suggest now?
Stop throwing soup on art and keep fighting fossil fuels. Go after coal too. Power plants and refineries are choke points on the process. Just stop making the public mad with pointless soup throwing. Or at least throw it on Nigel Farage. Public figures need soup more than Renaissance painters.
Dig troughs across oil access roads so maintenance crews can
That one worries me a bit because, if there is a problem, it could create a bigger environmental issue if things go really wrong. Then again, I assume they’ll just fly helicopters out to it which is probably worse than trucks. I no longer know anyone working in oil and gas to ask them about it, though.
