As noted by Brendan O’Neill, the present environmentalist campaigns such as Just Stop Oil, are like the climate change activists, campaigners for the end of industrial civilisation. If they did get what they wanted, tomorrow, the end of fossil fuels, tens of thousands of people would be out of work, with disastrous kick-on effects for the economy, crashing it on just that basis alone. That is the optimistic scenario, for as has already been seen with the Ukraine War, and fossil fuel restrictions from Russia, there will be a drop in the fossil fuels needed in all aspects of food production, from fertilisers, to the plough, and finally to transport of the finished product. Hence a food shortage, if not a famine.
Yet, as noted, the environment list crowd are urban New Class, who do not have to dirty their hands getting food. It is thus easy to jump on the protest bandwagon, as there is no personal cost. Yet, if there was the ban on fossil fuels, these weaklings would be the first to perish.