Today Just Stop Oil has joined the Farmers’ March called by the NFU in solidarity with agricultural workers. Just Stop Oil is demanding governments work together to end the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030. [1]
Starting at 11am, a group of Just Stop Oil supporters joined the farmers to march along Whitehall to Parliament Square.
A spokesperson for Just Stop Oil said:
“We understand the anger from farmers, we recognise they have been failed by government after government who seem content for farming policy to be set by Tescos. The Chancellor’s tax changes have hit the legacy small scale farmers can leave to their children, however the realisation that our inheritance is not going to be what we expected is going to hit us all, very soon.
Food production, the rural and urban economies, our health, education and transport systems have been designed for a climate that no longer exists. There is no evidence that farming can survive the 2C of heating that is now predicted for the 2030’s. That’s everyone’s inheritance down the pan. That’s why there are 24 people in prison who stood up to demand a decent future for all of us..
Just Stop Oil recognises that UK farmers are going to be on the sharp end as we enter this era of consequences. Farmers and farming cannot adapt to a future in which the weather will be either too hot, too dry, too wet or too cold to grow food. The crisis in farming is about so much more than inheritance tax, it’s about political elites betraying ordinary people.”
Sam Griffiths, one of those marching today said:
“If we are going to have a future worth inheriting then we need farmers, growing food and protecting the countryside we cherish. Small scale farmers have been hung out to dry, caught between powerful supermarkets, cheap imports and government policies designed to benefit large landowners. Farmers should be on the streets, they should get a decent price for their produce, and like all of us they should get a countryside worth inheriting.”
We stand with our 24 supporters in prison, with the 1,800 victims of our broken criminal justice system imprisoned for over a year without trial and with the 1,700 murdered across the global south, for protecting all our lives. [2]
ENDS
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Notes to Editors
[1] Just Stop Oil is a member of the A22 Network of civil resistance projects.
Critical seed funding for Just Stop Oil was provided by Climate Emergency Fund and Adam McKay in 2022 and 2023. Just Stop Oil is now largely backed by small donations from the public, although the Climate Emergency Fund continues to contribute.
Just Stop Oil ‘Blue Lights’ policy: our policy is, and has always been, to move out of the way for emergency vehicles with siren sounding and ‘blue lights’ on.
We take all possible steps to ensure that no-one’s safety is compromised by our actions.
Our Demand: An end to oil, gas and coal by 2030.
Our governments must work together to establish a legally binding treaty to stop extracting and burning oil, gas and coal by 2030 as well as supporting and financing poorer countries to make a fast, fair, and just transition.
This can be accomplished by endorsing the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative and seeking a negotiating mandate to establish the treaty.