Protesters from Just Stop Oil may be breaking the law and yet still be morally right in the face of future disaster
This week, climate activists disrupted the UK’s oil supply, because they believe they face a desperate choice. Nonviolent resistance now, or the unthinkable violence of climate change later.
“There is a need to break the law,” says Just Stop Oil’s Melissa Carrington, “so we are not guilty of greater crime.” But is she right?
Elizabeth Cripps is a writer and moral philosopher, and the author of What Climate Justice Means and Why We Should Care
