Stop Oil is financed in large part by Aileen Getty, of the billionaire Getty oil family. I have no proof but to me that smacks of bored rich people. There are probably more rich folk financing it.
And that's really the whole answer. Organizations like Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion are pet vanity projects of bored rich people who only know about performative action, or they're not committed enough to want monumental change.
The funders of Just Stop Oil and Aileen Getty in particular definitely strike me as bored rich liberals. XR has some altogether spookier elements in its orbit although I've met some good ground-level activists.
Stop Oil is financed in large part by Aileen Getty, of the billionaire Getty oil family. I have no proof but to me that smacks of bored rich people. There are probably more rich folk financing it.
And that's really the whole answer. Organizations like Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion are pet vanity projects of bored rich people who only know about performative action, or they're not committed enough to want monumental change.
The funders of Just Stop Oil and Aileen Getty in particular definitely strike me as bored rich liberals. XR has some altogether spookier elements in its orbit although I've met some good ground-level activists.