Three Cheers for Diminished ‘Just Stop Oil’

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 7, 2025

On social media, Christopher Nguyen gave praises for the retreat (surrender?) of Just Stop Oil, a development reported last week at MasterResource. He should know, being a UKer (Scotland).

He wrote:

No more roadblocks, no more anti-art actions, no more helping UN’s Net Zero “inspired” politicians legislate or promote:
🚫🚗Clean Air Zones, (Ultra) Low Emission Zones (Anti-motorist Zones), 15 minute cities, 20 minute neighbourhoods,
🚫🥩🍼meat and dairy exclusionary contracts,
🚫✈️flight shaming,
🚫🧥shaming buying clothes,
🚫🐮🐶carbon taxes.

Praise God. Let us rejoice!
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One leg down. More to come down.
Do you comply with the Net Zero Carbon consumption targets?
🚫🍼Absolute Zero dairy
🚫🥩Absolute Zero meat
🚫👗3 items of clothing per year
🚫✈️1 return flight per 3 years
🚫🚗Absolute Zero private vehicles

Source:The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World, 2019, c40 cities, p.78, 82, 86, 90 https://lnkd.in/ejhTfy8N

Who is doing that: https://lnkd.in/eAQik-Eb
Who funds that: https://lnkd.in/ex3YgA3b
Mayors participating https://lnkd.in/ewU_YrcN
Mayors cooperating https://lnkd.in/ePjPw4vQ

Christopher Nguyen warns that the other climate groups are secretly working to disrupt and vandalize the winning, normal ways of their opponents. Good citizens beware!

In a comment, Kevin Hofner noted:

The founder of [Just Stop Oil] is [jailed] Roger Hallam. He is a serial poster on X specializing in fear. He is a Svengali who lured several to the cause and convinced them to block traffic on a major London-area highway. High-publicity arrest and trial.

He, and several of those who listened to his siren song, are in [jail] for the activity. He continues to fund raise from inside. The irony is no one can say if he used pounds from his slush fund to help with the defense of his followers.

Most of X has turned on him and his posts are now covered with protests. He destroyed his own movement with his misguided efforts. Won’t be missed.

Fifteen protestors with Just Stop Oil are in prison.

Are they reading the books to cure them of climate anxiety and futilism? Here are some suggestions:

• Judith Curry, Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response (2023)

• Alex Epstein, Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas–Not Less (2022)

• Steven Koonin, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters (2021)

• Pierre Desrochers and Joanna Szurkmak, Population Bombed!: Exploding the Link Between Overpopulation and Climate Change (2018)