the brilliantly leaping gazelle

It always baffles me how the protesters from Just Stop Oil manage to avoid serious injury when attempting to draw attention to a problem, a problem that most people are quite content to remain a problem.

Their latest stunt involved throwing some powder at Stonehenge today to make some point or other about keeping oil or coal in the ground. About how much more needs to be done, with much more urgency and of course, much more guilt about living in a society where these boons to humanity have become commonplace.Bizarrely, no-one has ever lamped one of these fuckers and because of that, it emboldens them to commit even greater follies in pursuance of a goal as unlikely to be achieved as Scotland winning the Euro’s.

Do people care about the planet, yes of course they do! But they care about heating their homes a lot more.

Do they want more renewable energy, yes of course they do! But they also want the certainty that when they turn their light switch on in January – when the sun doesn’t shine – or in the summer – when the wind doesn’t blow – it’ll work.

Do some people agree think that electric cars are the future, of course they do! But most question their affordability and practicality.

Why don’t the protesters just sue their parents for committing the unpardonable crime of having had them in the first place, and further compounding that sin by doing so in a time and place which indulges their performative posturing?  

If only their Dads has kept it in their pants!