Roger Hallam — the founder of Just Stop Oil, a far-left British— once downplayed the Holocaust as a"normal event" and said climate change was a more serious threat.
"They went to the Congo in the late 19th century and decimated it," he continued."[The Holocaust was] almost a normal event. Just another f---ery in human history." Hallam then backtracked, saying he did not mean to downplay the Holocaust, but he added that climate change poses a greater threat to humanity than the slaughter of millions of Jewish people in the mid-20th century."I want to fully acknowledge the unimaginable suffering caused by the Nazi Holocaust that led to all of Europe saying ‘never again,'" Hallam said."But it is happening again, on a far greater scale and in plain sight.
Hallam's groups, meanwhile, have pushed for extreme measures to fight global warming and reduce emissions. Both Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion have engaged in andJust Stop Oil has made headlines in recent months for blocking traffic in busy cities and vandalizing famous pieces of artwork in museums. Last month, two activists affiliated with the group"You will only be successful when you break the rules and break the laws," Hallam wrote in an essay in April 2021.
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