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240: The Science of Just Stop Oil Protests

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Science, Comedy, Education

4.9632 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Do you care about the climate? How do you feel about Just Stop Oil? This week we're discussing the facts around climate change & how extreme protests affect public opinion.

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References & Further Reading
Just Stop Oil
https://juststopoil.org/faqs/

Public Order & Protest Laws
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/655/made

Environmental Impacts of Fossil Fuels
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/science/causes-effects-climate-change
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/fossil-fuels-dirty-facts
https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/oil-and-gas-development

Protests
https://theconversation.com/just-stop-oil-do-radical-protests-turn-the-public-away-from-a-cause-heres-the-evidence-192901
https://theconversation.com/climate-change-radical-activists-benefit-social-movements-history-shows-why-181977
https://brookes.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=384ad6d2-e8c1-4f38-bb5f-af1e00e54fda
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023120925949
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230421-earth-day-the-science-of-climate-change-protest
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/activists-dilemma-extreme-protest-actions-reduce-popular-support

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1:10.1

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1:15.7

Come with me.

1:24.6

This week we're talking about climate catastrophes and divisive demonstrations.

1:29.5

But first, we have a Spotify update.

1:31.9

How many of the followers am I leading?

1:33.8

47,898, but that's not what I want to talk about.

1:36.8

Luke, I don't even want to talk about all those followers.

1:39.5

Tell everyone to follow us.

1:40.7

I don't even want to talk about them right now.

1:42.1

What I want to talk about is us being back in the charts on Spotify. Legends. Yeah, we weren't in the charts for a while because

1:49.2

for some reason we were a comedy podcast and competition there is rough. That's like every podcast

1:55.3

claims to you. Every podcast says they're comedy, but they're not as funny as us. They're funnier. No, we're in the

2:03.5

Spotify charts. We're officially on the 4th of November, 2023, were the 43 best and coolest

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