The Glasgow activist was arrested in London last month for throwing paint over a Rolex window
The activist group is demanding the UK government commit to halting all new fossil fuel developments and have made their point with a series of eye-catching demonstrations.
Jennifer is an environmental scientist who was arrested in London last month for allegedly throwing paint over a Rolex window. Having obtained a bachelor's degree in biology with first-class honours from the University of Aberdeen, she took on an internship in environmental analysis with Zero WasteShe said:"I went on to environmental science after leaving Uni. I’ve worked for the government, I’ve worked for environmental consultancies, NGOs.
“But none of that matters if the UK government isn’t willing to listen and isn’t willing to actually do what is needed." “So on the one hand I could see, ‘oh there are people who totally get this and are willing to put their bodies on the line to get that message across’ and there are people in the office who I’m working with where it’s just a job for them. It’s literally just about making money and following the status quo and that’s all it is.
“But when I gave my views on it I was told my views weren’t OK to share. I was basically stating that this conference is, in many ways, a waste of time and isn’t going to achieve anything and, lo and behold, it didn’t achieve anything. Critics of the movement, however, would say that far from holding the powerful to account, such protests are only inconveniencing working people.Miss Kowalski says:"A lot of the disruption that we cause does affect people, which is not what we want to do.
“When we look at the bigger picture it’s just a case of what is necessary to do. Many of us within Just Stop Oil are scientists like me. Many, many people have had similar experiences where they’ve seen that their work just isn’t enough.“There are people who are affected and people who hate seeing this direct action happen but, as a scientist, it’s just fundamentally necessary at this point.
Miss Kowalski responds:"It’s interesting that we’re called the upper class, or rich people, when many of us are working-class or not at all rich by any means, whereas the people in our government really are the upper class.“They’re extremely wealthy people, yet somehow the government and the billionaire-owned media have managed to write the narrative that it’s us who are out of touch.
“It’s just ridiculous, it makes absolutely no sense and it makes no sense that people are willing to just take that and accept it. So we’re really trying to show we don’t have to. We’re trying to show we can resist that and say ‘enough is enough’ and create change, create better for the people this government is supposed to help.”
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