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. 

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.