A German climate activist who was left with a chunk of tarmac stuck to his hand after glueing himself to the street has been jailed for three days.
Raul Semmler, a 38-year-old former soap opera actor, used a combination of sand and superglue to bind himself to the street in Mainz last year.
Just Stop Oil activists have been dragged along the road by the police for the first time since they began blockading traffic with “slow marches”.
Four contingents of the eco group took to major arterial routes in London on Wednesday morning in their latest attempt to force ministers to cancel all new oil and gas licences.
This is the moment that a furious motorist drives through a crowd of Just Stop Oil protestors during rush hour.
The man is shown pleading with the eco-clowns to move out of the way, before saying ‘I will run you over’, as the protestors place themselves in front of his van.
Just Stop Oil supporters have taken up positions on London’s bridges during busy periods in order to enforce their message.
A cyclist and self-described north London liberal berated Just Stop Oil protesters on Monday, saying “I hate you” and accusing the activists of “hurting the green cause”.
Putting the group’s public relations problem in stark terms, the commuter told the slow marchers who were blocking traffic: “Everyone hates you.”
The American Psychological Association (APA) does not yet consider it a pathology per se, although it is affecting more and more people; but it has already provided a definition: “Fear that can occur chronically from environmental cataclysm or from observing the seemingly irrevocable impact of climate change.” This is ‘eco-anxiety,’ a psychological condition related to the climate emergency.
Awareness of a hypothetical climate apocalypse is reportedly causing more and more individuals to fall into grief and despair, suffer panic attacks, and give up life projects, such as having children, because they see the planet’s overpopulation and a high quality of life as incompatible. And “if adults are extraordinarily worried, children are terrified,” warns Danish environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg.
Incredible moment eco campaigner storms Sweden’s Strictly Come Dancing final… only for the cameraman to dramatically bring his stunt to an end
Watch as a climate activist, who crashed Sweden’s Strictly Come Dancing final, gets hit in the face by a TV camera 😂 pic.twitter.com/GUhU2IyO6k
— Censored Men (@CensoredMen) May 29, 2023
A Hollywood director helping to bankroll Just Stop Oil has been accused of hypocrisy over his lavish holiday home in Ireland – 5,000 miles from his Los Angeles base.
Oscar winner Adam McKay, whose films include the Big Short and Don’t Look Up, is one of a group of multi-millionaires behind the Climate Emergency Fund.
The Beverly Hills-based fund raises cash from its mega rich supporters and distributes it to ‘disruptive’ activists, including handing almost £1million to help Just Stop Oil wreak havoc in the UK.
The former president of Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), which serves as the country’s domestic intelligence agency, has called for the far-left, eco-activist group Last Generation to be treated as a threat to the country’s free and democratic order.
In a commentary piece penned for Junge Freiheit, former BfV chief Hans-Georg Maasen, insisted that—in light of the mounting number of criminal cases pending against members of the group for property damage, blocking road traffic, and financing a criminal enterprise—not only is it long overdue that the Last Generation be classified as a criminal organization but that the group ought to be classified as a threat to democracy.
Dutch police arrested over 1500 climate protesters after a climate protest garnered thousands of participants in the Hague, the Netherlands’ seat of government.
The protest was called for by Extinction Rebellion, a group that originated in the UK which uses non-violent albeit disruptive protest methods to raise climate awareness.
Protesters blocked a section of a motorway, near the base of both the Dutch parliament and the prime minister’s offices. Extinction Rebellion said some 7,000 took part.
Niet iedereen is onder de indruk van de politieinzet van de gemeente Den Haag.
Wij blijven terugkomen. #A12 #StopFossieleSubsidies pic.twitter.com/qlqsvrNXe7
— Extinction Rebellion Nederland (@NLRebellion) May 27, 2023
Europe grapples with Last Generation climate protests
Over the last week, climate activists featured heavily in the European news cycle.
In Germany, police and prosecutors launched their first nationwide crackdown on the Last Generation group with raids on May 24. The climate activists are charged with the “formation or support of a criminal organization” in Munich, which led to home searches and the shutdown of their website.
Four days earlier, Last Generation activists in Italy had staged an attention-grabbing protest, pouring a black liquid, charcoal diluted with water, into the Trevi Fountain in Rome. Their banner demanded “an immediate end to public subsidies for all fossil fuels.”
The Premiership final was interrupted by Just Stop Oil protesters as yet another showpiece sporting fixture was hijacked by environmental groups.
At least three protesters entered the pitch with just 20 minutes on the clock between Saracens and Sale Sharks, unleashing orange paint which marked the playing surface.
It looked a lot like the Just Stop Oil thugs deliberately threw powdered paint at the players in Twickenham.
Assault at a minimum.@metpoliceuk should get these clowns charged.
— Steve in London 🇬🇧 (@LordCLQTR) May 27, 2023
Environmentalism is a bourgeois cult that wants ordinary people to put up with less. No wonder workers are fighting back.
I’m starting to think that Just Stop Oil is a Big Oil plant. What else could explain these campaigners’ phenomenal ability to turn the public against them and confirm their critics’ worst prejudices. Namely, that this environmental activism / amdram troupe is stuffed with upper-middle-class irritants who couldn’t give a damn about working-class people. Surely, this has got to be on purpose?
A Chelsea Flower Show visitor hosed down three Just Stop Oil protesters after orange powder was thrown over an award-winning garden during a climate protest.
Three activists dressed in white Just Stop Oil T-shirts stepped over a rope barrier to enter the RBC Brewin Dolphin Garden, designed by Paul Hervey-Brookes, at around 9am on Thursday.
A visitor at Chelsea Flower Show hosed down Just Stop Oil protesters after they chucked orange paint over a garden.
Three people were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage in relation to the incident, Metropolitan Police said.
Read more here 👉 https://t.co/IQ1zagNwkM pic.twitter.com/d0N05Zk3cH
— Sky News (@SkyNews) May 25, 2023
German police have carried out raids in seven states in a probe into climate campaigners suspected of forming or backing a criminal group because of their controversial activities.
Among those raided was Last Generation spokeswoman Carla Hinrichs, whose door was broken down by armed police while she was in bed, the group said.
For months Last Generation has disrupted traffic in German cities.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz has condemned their campaign as “completely crazy”.
Good for the Germans!
Teaching climate science in schools can be valuable, but not when it’s blatantly oriented toward ‘social justice’ and views rationality as an obstacle to proper learning.
One sentence from Washington State’s new high-school curriculum on climate science betrays how bizarre the discussion about teaching science has become:
For too long, science and science education have prioritized my rational thinking.
Instead of prioritizing rational thinking, the purportedly scientific curriculum argues that “we must learn to pay attention to our own emotions and those of other people.”
An irate motorist tackled a mob of Just Stop Oil protesters as they “slow marched” their way through south London.
The 28 activists brought traffic in Elephant and Castle to a standstill by walking at a snail’s pace towards a court in Newington where four Insulate Britain members were standing trial for public nuisance.
