Climate Activist Thinks He’s Made a Powerful Statement, Then the Laughter Starts

A young male climate activist covered the exterior of the Aston Martin showroom in Central 📍London on Sunday with orange spray paint to end new fossil fuel licensing. He is a member of the environmental activist group Just Stop 🛢️Oil.

Other demonstrators from the group blocked Park Lane and some glued themselves to the road, an activity known as “locking on,” according to Sky News.

In the video below, as paint dripped from the large plate glass windows behind him, he shouted to the crowd that had gathered to watch: “We will not be stopped, by injunctions that are intended to silence protest. We’re a nonviolent civil disobedience movement. We know that the changes in the laws, the injunctions against us are irrelevant in comparison to mass starvation, with the genocidal policies that our government is pushing for. We’ve got 100 new fossil fuel licenses in the North Sea.”

But instead of engaging with him, many bystanders were laughing at him. Dressed in a colorful sports bra, a bright red pleated skirt that fell from his hips, and an open black hoody, it was impossible to take him seriously.

This incident happened at 11 a.m. on Sunday. Home Secretary Suella Braverman, Mayor of 📍London Sadiq Khan and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Nadhim Zahawi, held a meeting earlier that morning to “outline plans to crack down on such