why can’t they do this on a bank or oil company’s facilities somewhere. Pal Action and others in the Pal solidarity movement have advanced these kinds of tactics with their targeted and highly-visible campaigns against various companies complicit in the genocide in Palestine, it’s stupid for JSO to continue with these late 2010s radlib style actions that do very little good for the movement. go put paint on some actually unpopular target, and aim not to get arrested. stop doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
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 Nck 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
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.
why can’t they do this on a bank or oil company’s facilities somewhere. Pal Action and others in the Pal solidarity movement have advanced these kinds of tactics with their targeted and highly-visible campaigns against various companies complicit in the genocide in Palestine, it’s stupid for JSO to continue with these late 2010s radlib style actions that do very little good for the movement. go put paint on some actually unpopular target, and aim not to get arrested. stop doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
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 Nck 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
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