Inside Just Stop Oil, the youth climate group blocking UK refineries

A band of 20-year-olds have made headlines disrupting football games, the Baftas and now oil facilities across the UK. But what do they want?Don't get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThis piece first appeared in Down to Earth, the Guardian's climate crisis newsletter, on Thursday 31 March before Friday's protests at oil terminals across the UK. Sign up here to read more exclusive pieces like this and for a digest of the week's biggest environment stories every ThursdayLouis McKechnie is the face that launched a thousand British football memes. In March, the 21-year-old caused a stop to play when he ran onto the pitch at Goodison Park during a match between Everton and Newcastle and zip-tied himself to a goalpost by his neck.If anything could have enraged the 40,000 jeering football fans more, it was the solemnity with which he did it. But while for many the episode will have merely been jotted down as another entry in the annals of absurdity, his cause was deadly serious. Continue reading...