I’m sure that, these days, fewer and fewer people doubt the reality of climate change. Not many people would try to wontonly argue against the growing mountain of evidence that humans are changing the environment, or that we need to break our addiction to fossil fuels. Why, then, would a group of self-proclaimed climate activists feel that they needed to forcefully interrupt several high profile public events to draw attention to a cause most of us are already convinced of?
Like most people I was appalled to see activists from Just Stop Oil interrupting the first night of the proms last night. It’s not that I disagree with their cause, just with how they are trying to articulate, and indeed distort, it.by breaking into such high profile events, these activists seem to think that they are drawing attention to an issue nobody else knows about or realises the importance of. They are behaving like the sufferagettes, hurling themselves in front of the Kings horse for the sake of true democracy. Yet the difference is we are all aware of the need to control climate change, just as we are aware that women have a right to vote.
The result is totally counterproductive, damaging the climate cause far more than helping it. Such activists seem like antisocial hooligans, shouting about things we all already know about to draw attention to their selves, yet ironically eroding the credibility of the wider issue in doing so.
The Ill-Informed Ramblings of a Cripple 
People may know about climate change but on every level almost nothing is being DONE to avert disaster. While I agree that actions such as this may not be effective. Thus far NOTHING has been effective in creating change.
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We are all aware of women’s rights to vote, but it was certainly not the case at the time of the suffragettes. Much like climate change today. I still hear , as recently as last week, people say that the current heat wave is just part of the statistical ups and downs of temperature, is only temporary, there is no proof that it is the result, even partial, of human activity, of the fossil fuel industry, and so on. And of course there has been a long haul by the fuel industry to discredit the work of climate scientists. So there is still much to be done to convince people, industry and government. The question of tactics is a different matter.
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True. I daresay most educated, well informed people know about climate change. It’s spoken about everywhere these days. It isn’t a fringe issue, like Sufferagism was. I think the point I was making is that these activists seem to be treating it like it is, acting as if they’re bringing our attention to an issue nobody else knows or cares about.
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