Just Stop Oil’s toytown activists too chicken to take on China

Just Stop Oil… except in China where they don’t take kindly to students blocking motorways (Image: Getty) Priti Patel was right this week when she said that Britain had to press pause on its crazy, undo-able net zero targets. And three cheers for Rishi Sunak who found his voice and his cahones this week and said he was going to ‘max out’ North Sea oil reserves by granting 100 new oil drilling licences. Of course Just Stop Oil are up in arms (when aren’t they?) screaming this will only hasten the apocalypse when of course it won’t. This is just more hysterical frothing at the mouth from a bunch of virtue signalling narcissists who not only push fake facts about the severity and the speed of climate change they have no understanding of what their demands, if met, might mean to Britain and its 67M people. Rishi’s promise to max out North Sea oil makes total sense at a time when there’s a war raging in Europe and we’re still dangerously reliant on foreign imports. Hell’s teeth we are so lucky to have natural energy resources and if managed properly North Sea oil could be enough to fuel the UK for the next 30 years. It would be the sheer lunacy to ban the development of new oil and gas fields here when we still need to import gas and energy from abroad and from tyrants like Putin. Just Stop Oil’s facile demand that the Government halts all new gas and oil licences shows how stupid they actually all are. Don’t they get it? No government is ever going to meet their imbecilic demands. And their ludicrous hope that it will shows how thick-headed they all are. Trouble is they’ve convinced themselves that they ARE actually saving the planet. It’s hilarious they think that a slow walk through Britain’s towns and cities will save anything let alone force this Government to do what they want. But in their self-righteous little minds they believe they’re decent, big hearted, socially responsible people on a mission to save the world when the truth is they’re a mob of egotistical narcissists who get their thrills from being involved in a movement that helps advertise their (supposed) moral superiority over the rest of us. And that’s not me saying that by the way. It’s a new study from the University of Bern which says many forms of modern day activism are attractive to narcissists because it helps satisfy their self-related needs. And you just have to look at the Just Stop Oil mob and listen to their rantings to see this is true. This is all about THEM not the planet. Yes climate change is real – but JSO’s reality is different to the actual reality of climate change and of those people who actually understand what meeting JSO demands would mean to this country and its people. But of course these loony activists don’t care about that. These are mostly rich young kids and bored pensioners who don’t have any responsibilities and don’t understand the responsibilities of running a country and doing what’s best for the people in it. And rushing to Net Zero by 2050 would be disastrous for Brits as Rishi has already hinted, which is why he’s now rowing back on some of the eco policies that would cripple families. As would the banning of the production of petrol and diesel cars by 2030. And don’t get me onto those £25,000 heat pumps that people who have them say don’t work and leave them with crippling energy bills. And aren’t you sick to the back teeth of Just Stop Oil lambasting our ‘criminal’ government when the only criminals in all this are them. Just Stop Oil doesn’t seem to know, or refuses to accept, that Britain is responsible for just one percent of global emissions. ‘Aaaah,’ say the eco idiots ‘but what about our historical emissions. Look what we’ve done to the world since the Industrial Revolution.’ Well let me tell you about those emissions. Globally the UK has produced just 4.6 percent of ALL historical emissions. And these emissions were around 80 percent of those that occurred prior to 1990. And the killer fact here that activists also refuse to acknowledge is that China has released more carbon dioxide in the last eight years than the UK has since the Industrial Revolution began. In fact the UK has seen the greatest reduction in CO2 emissions in the last 30 years compared to any other industrialised nation. So, in terms of tackling climate change this country is more than doing its bit. But JSO and its sanctimonious activists won’t ever acknowledge that. They just continue to scream and shout about how terrible we are here in Britain without having the guts to go and confront the real polluters. And we know these toy-town activists would never dare to go to China to slow walk in front of Beijing’s traffic because they know what would happen to them. Their sense of self-preservation is way more important than their fears for the climate which makes them hypocrites doesn’t it? They want us all to make sacrifices here but they don’t have the guts to go to hub of where the real pollution is happening because they’re terrified of what will happen to them. Tony Blair was right (there’s a sentence I never thought I’d use) when he said nothing we in the UK do will make a damn bit of difference unless China and the US cut their emissions. Which is precisely why Rishi must row back on this unseemly rush to Net Zero. Yes, there needs to be a sensible conversation about climate change and what we do about it. But the British people must not be saddled with the exorbitant costs of green policies that will do absolutely nothing to save the planet.