Just Stop Oil Protest

This is why they are "tolerated" by oil firms.  You've hit the nail on the head (not about funding) but about them being self-defeating in trying to persuade public opinion.

Look at the geopolitics - America wants everybody else to commit to net-zero, whilst expanding drilling and fracking.  Net-zero is simply an impossible dream right now (at least 2030/2035 objectives.  2050 is more realistic in terms of infrastructure development, hydrogen capabilities and avoiding jumping from frying pan to fire with extensive over-mining of lithium.  As usual, politicians will jump on any bandwagon that makes them popular or appear down with the kids, but in reality the issue of global warming and net-zero is a much longer project than most of our lifetimes, and politicians love to over-promise and under-deliver.  Oil and gas are here in their current form for at least the next twenty years, and the transition to cleaner greener living will take a little longer than the JSO fascists might like, but I believe in the ingenuity of humankind and that we will get there eventually.  What mustn't happen is some kind of social pressganging which will simply leave the poorest worse off or unable to make the jump. Many of the JSO hi-vis brigade simply don't know what it is like for the average Joe trying to earn a living and provide for their nearest and dearest.

I’m sure some would say Greenpeace are a museum protest group; completely behind the times. They need someone to come in and modernise them. Museum piece - or museum Greenpeace if you will

Erm, if you think they’ve achieved nothing in terms of highlighting the major problem hurtling towards our near futures, you might want to check newsfeeds here in the U.K./around the world. They front paged it.

What the press should have done is NOT publicised it, thereby removing their oxygen and not punishing people that may well support them.

Also worth saying that there are ways of campaigning very effectively without alienating your target demographic, witness Led By Donkeys.

If you're quoting BTTF, I think "...you're children are gonna love it..."  would be more appropriate.  JSO is a childish attempt at disruptive anarchy by people with no purpose in life - they're either silly little student kids or retired old has-beens, all of whom think soft protests will make a difference.  They look decidly amateur compared to more organised groups. This is while the oil companies tolerate them, because they pose little or no threat other than to sway public opinion against their cause.  JSO are the biggest threat to green goals and ambitions - rich-backer funded anarchy.  It's Brexit all over again.

You are absolutely spot on with your evaluation.  JSO and their ilk have a permanent presence outside several oil co headquarters - nobody gives a sh*t because they are flaccid little Tarquin and Jemima sorts, or retired pensioners from the home counties.  JSO isn't organised in any way or form, it relies on hi-vis tactics (literally) and anybody with an ounce of brain should question the underlying tactics behind JSO - I would argue that their tactics alone have emboldened the current government with the confidence to backtrack on several "progress" initiatives, as it tries to claw back populist votes from frustrated motorists and working class voters who are being hit financially left, right and centre. JSO is funded disruption by people who either choose not to work or don't need to work, and their modus operandi is nothing to do with their core intentions and everything to do with maximising disruption and frustration for the masses.  It is a perverse attempt at posturing and power play, and one day it will get seriously out of hand when they misjudge their next big hit and somebody ends up getting hurt.  (But of course, that's what they want - it's sociopolitical gladiatorial behaviour, which won't end until there is bloodshed.  Rightly or wrongly.)

That's objectively very funny 😂

I woudn't call having to cancel a performance "effective" management.

I didn't compare to 9/11. I talked about lessons learnt from that regarding the bystander effect.

Absolutely this. It’s so tone deaf and inept it feels like a false flag operation. Completely idiotic from JSO.