NOT so long ago it was the lawyers and journalists who were the activists. How times have changed. With the birth of the environmental movement and social media it now appears almost everyone is. In many schools, where teachers embed man-made climate change and gender-fluid narratives, youngsters are seemingly encouraged to take up a cause. Just Stop Oil protestors - a combination of these youngsters and their expensively-dressed grandparents - are a manifestation of this mono-thought mayhem. The irony of the anti-fossil fuel protestors stopping the traffic, while adorned with the very petroleum-derived products they want banned is lost only on them. The roots of this anti-fossil fuel activism are widespread but secured a firm foundation with the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) and its promotion of man-made Carbon Dioxide, from industrial processes, as the primary driver of a warming planet. This was back in the 1990s and the solutions identified by the IPCC - and gest...
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