the other day, @Awoo@hexbear.net pointed out that Just Stop Oil are likely doing this to attract investment for various companies they run

https://hexbear.net/comment/5030428

Just Stop Oil is an advertisement for investors.

Their process is attention grabbing high exposure protest that is then used as a form of advertising and "this is our impact" to philanthropy investors. It's essentially a business. Some notes I took in a chat when doing research with a friend:

Trevor Neilson, alongside Rory Kennedy and Aileen Getty are founders of the CEF (Climate Emergency Fund)

Trevor Neilson is a director of Wastefuels limited with Aileen Getty and Nick Hurd mp

Trevor Neilson is a co-founder of I (x) Net zero, Nick Hurd is a chairman of the board

It's basically a net zero hedge fund.

Trevor Neilson has also worked for the Bill & Melinda gates foundation and Princes Charitable trust, so he's got real experience in the Philanthrocapitalism industry

Wastefuels ltd is a Berkshire Hathaway startup that's partnered with Maersk shipping to develop waste to fuel energy

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In short. They fund the protest action as a form of investment that generates interest in their zero carbon companies. Advertisement. They then get investment in their zero carbon companies and have a financial incentive to generate the most buzzy hypey protest stuff possible, not because it's effective but because it has the highest advertising impact for them - providing something that attracts and sells to investors about how effective they are at generating attention.

tl;dr - they're profiting off of climate activism

Who knows, maybe something useful will come from their startups, but they are not spraying cornstarch on Stonehenge because they think it will persuade anyone

You missed the BLM protester saying that they're protesting the wrong way 🙄