PEOPLE will be fighting over loaves of bread in supermarkets unless the use of fossil fuels is banned, according to a Just Stop Oil campaigner.

Phoebe Plummer clashed with Jacob Rees-Mogg during a discussion on GB News about achieving the Government’s goal of zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Ms Plummer made headlines in October as one of two JSO activists who threw tomato soup over a £76 million painting of sunflowers by Vincent van Gough during a protest at the National Gallery in London.

She told GB News: “This year, we lost a third of our wheat crops, half of our potato crops, and it’s only gonna get worse.

“We’re heading to a future where people are going to be fighting over the last loaves of bread at Lidl.”

Speaking directly to Mr Rees Mogg, she continued: “Jacob, you have six children, do you not care about their future? Do you not care about them being able to feed themselves?

“Because right now, under this government’s policies, your six children are heading towards a future that is filled with life threatening extreme weather events, crop failures, famine, war, suffering on a scale completely unimaginable…

“We’re heading down this genocidal path of mass destruction, no, there won’t be any foods in the supermarket, then we will see vast swathes of the world uninhabitable, we will see mass displacement of people.”

When it was pointed out that fossil fuel-based fertilisers are crucial for feeding the world’s population, Ms Plummer said: “We’re not asking for the taps to be turned off tomorrow.

“All of you know that we’re asking for an end to all new fossil fuel licences in line with what climate scientists around the world are saying.”

She added: “What happens when the Government fails to insulate British homes? 7.5 million British people live in fuel poverty, parents are starving themselves so that they can feed their children.

“People are freezing to death because they are forced to choose between heating and eating. Are you hearing me?”