Climate group behind attacks on Stonehenge and paintings announces it will stop ‘hi vis’ protests

Just Stop Oil, a climate activist group known for vandalizing Stonehenge and works of art, announced Thursday that it will cease these kinds of highly visible forms of protest at the end of April. 

“Three years after bursting on the scene in a blaze of orange, at the end of April we will be hanging up the hi vis,” the group said in a statement. “So it is the end of soup on Van Goghs, cornstarch on Stonehenge and slow marching in the streets.” 

In the announcement, the group boasted of having stopped consumers from accessing over 4.4 billion barrels of oil by ensuring oil companies won’t be able to produce them. The group also vowed to continue their efforts to stop people from using fossil fuels through other methods. 

“This is not the end of civil resistance. Governments everywhere are retreating from doing what is needed to protect us from the consequences of unchecked fossil fuel burning. As we head towards 2°C of global heating by the 2030s, the science is clear: billions of people will have to move or die and the global economy is going to collapse,” the group said. 

According to data from the International Disaster Database, the number of deaths from climate related natural disasters has declined approximately 98% since 1920. 

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations consortium of the world’s leading scientists, develops policy scenarios – called Shared Socioeconomic Pathways – to forecast emissions and economic outcomes under various policy approaches to addressing climate change. The IPCC projects enormous economic growth under all policy scenarios, even under a policy scenario in which nothing is done to address emissions.