Our Responsibilities At This Time: Civil Resistance Against Climate Change

Mon Aug 22 2022 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

Brunei Gallery SOAS | London

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Our Responsibilities At This Time: Civil Resistance Against Climate Change
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START ACTING LIKE LIFE DEPENDS ON IT: CIVIL RESISTANCE TO CLIMATE CHAOS IN 2022
About this Event

“If governments are serious about the climate crisis, there can be no new investments in oil, gas and coal, from now – from this year.” Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (May 2021)

“I believe that what we do in the next 3 to 4 years will determine the future of humanity” Professor Sir David King, former UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser (2021)

"Allowing the extraction of new oil and gas resources in the UK is obscene, a policy that could condemn humanity to oblivion. It just has to stop. There can be no new oil anywhere in the world, if governments are serious about climate. If we continue down our current path it will destroy families and communities. It will be an utter betrayal of our children and this country. This choice of rapid transition to a low energy, low carbon world or social collapse is now inevitable. We can do it now, in an orderly manner - creating millions of proper skilled jobs and protecting the rights of workers in sunset industries - or we wait for the unavoidable collapse. Climate collapse will mean the end of workers rights, women's rights, all human rights. It is already the greatest injustice visited on the global south in human history. It is time to put everything aside, it’s either survival solidarity now or collective failure." (Just Stop Oil)

Come and hear more with speakers from Just Stop Oil:

Indigo Rumbelow is a supporter of the Just Stop Oil coalition which is demanding an end to new fossil fuel licences in the UK. She has been active in many climate and social justice groups including Insulate Britain, Protect Pont Valley and Grow Heathrow.


Will Goldring is a former synthetic organic chemistry and neuropharmacology PhD student at UCL. He recently left his PhD and has been actively mobilising action for Just Stop Oil.

Will Bajwa is a supporter of Just Stop Oil. As an undergrad English Literature student at Cambridge University, he wants more students to understand the implications of climate change and participate in finding solutions.

The talk will begin by covering information on the scale of the climate crisis, citing key findings from the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The second part will recount examples of social movements that have made change despite all the odds. The final part of the talk will discuss Just Stop Oil’s plan for 2022 and how you can be involved.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Brunei Gallery SOAS, 10 Thornhaugh St, London, United Kingdom

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