Just Stop Oil's JAMES SKEET (Climate Solutions For Realists miniseries Part 1) #612
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This is part 1 of an April-long miniseries curated by Pip entitled 'Climate Solutions For Realists'.
Our first guest is JAMES SKEET of JUST STOP OIL.
You likely had an instant reaction when you saw 'Just Stop Oil'. You may have also felt something when you saw the name of the miniseries centred around climate. But is it something you've heard about first hand? And - like many of us - has it just been too much to take on board?
What's important to know is that nothing you'll hear this month in this selection of episodes will be a constant tell-off-athon or be led by people shaking their heads at you in judgement. For one thing that would suck and be no fun whatsoever for anyone, but for another that simply achieves nothing either. In this episode, you'll hear from James who is fighting a fight, believe it or not, for the good of all of us and the world.
There will be points including how oil companies infiltrate their way into laws which affect us all, how social change requires discomfort, and the situation we're currently in.
Of course it's an immensely difficult and bundled up layer-heavy conversation with a huge amount of feelings, thoughts, opinions and perspectives. But without listening to James, you're missing out on a really crucial voice in all of this. So please, wherever you stand on the issue (no judgement, as said), take this episode on board. It's fascinating and you're also hearing him in a context not often offered either - this isn't James in defence mode. This is information delivery combined with conversation. Listen, share if you feel it, and let's see what we can do with all this.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the Distraction Pieces podcast episode 612. And this is a very exciting episode. |
| 0:08.2 | It's a very exciting month because this episode is the first episode of a month of specials. |
| 0:14.0 | Earth Day is in April. And I was looking at that and thinking, oh, I should do like a climate episode. |
| 0:20.6 | And then I thought, an episode isn't enough. So I decided that for the and thinking, oh, I should do like a climate episode. And then I thought, like, an episode isn't enough. |
| 0:23.0 | So I decided that for the whole month of April, I'm going to talk to climate activists, |
| 0:28.8 | climate journalists, and talk about the climate crisis, because it can feel so overwhelming |
| 0:35.1 | and it's so easy to feel helpless. |
| 0:39.9 | So I wanted, as I always say, |
| 0:46.5 | this podcast is as much for me as it is for anyone else. But I wanted to shake that helplessness. |
| 0:51.2 | I wanted to talk to people. I wanted to talk about the seriousness of the situation, but also talk about the wins, talk about what is being done, talk about successes |
| 0:55.8 | that are being had. And every conversation I've had has been absolutely astounding. Now, let's get |
| 1:01.7 | on to this being the first episode. When I booked this episode with James Skeet of Just Stop |
| 1:10.1 | Oil, I said, look, I'm probably going to put you guys at the end, |
| 1:14.7 | because Justop Oil are such a polarising organisation. You know, I'll say off the bat, I support them. |
| 1:20.6 | I think they're great. I love what they do. But there'll be people listening now who are like, |
| 1:24.9 | yeah, come on, I get the calls, but the way they approach |
| 1:28.2 | it, or the way they do this or the way they do that, I don't agree with or I think could be |
| 1:32.7 | done better. And that's absolutely fine. We're allowed to have conflicting opinions on this. |
| 1:36.9 | But I've ended up starting with this episode, because the conversation that we had was so |
| 1:41.4 | fascinating and so interesting that I think for those who support and for |
| 1:46.8 | those who question their approaches, it's kind of the perfect way to start this series of |
| 1:53.0 | conversations. Now, I will tell you, over this month, this isn't about huge names. So I would |
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