'If we continue with fossil fuels, then we're... not gonna have a planet that we can live on,' said one JustStop_Oil protestor who locked himself to an oil tanker.
"People are locked on at the entrances using large pink oil barrels filled with concrete, with the words 'END FOSSIL FUELS NOW' on them," Extinction Rebellion U.K. noted in a
"The mainstream media are going to do their best to make us look like nutcases, and that is gonna be the message they're peddling, but what is nuts is the government are refusing to listen to the science," said Ford."If we continue with fossil fuels, then we're... not gonna have a planet that we can live on. It's already happening."
Louis McKecknie, a 21-year-old from Weymouth who last month zip-tied his neck to a goalpost at Goodison Park, Everton's football stadium, as part of the Just Stop Oil campaign,:"I don't want to be doing this, but our genocidal government gives me no choice. They know that oil is funding Putin's war and pushing millions of people into fuel poverty while energy companies reap billions in profits. They know that to allow more oil and gas extraction in the U.K.
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