Maeve Higgins: Just Stop Oil is about a choice — profit for a few or survival for all

Activist: 'The real question is why millions aren’t in civil resistance rather than why I am'
Two protesters from Just Stop Oil threw tinned soup at Vincent Van Gogh's famous 1888 work Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London. 

Two protesters from Just Stop Oil threw tinned soup at Vincent Van Gogh's famous 1888 work Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London. 

On Sunday, Patrick Michael John McCarthy, a 67-year-old carer from Telford, sat down in the middle of Park Lane, a four-lane road running beside Hyde Park in London.

There were a handful of other activists with him, all sharing the goal of shutting down the road to draw attention to the British government’s complicity in the climate crisis.

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