5mo ago

Labour is wilfully ignoring that the climate crisis is at a crunch point.

Labour is wilfully ignorant of climate crisis crunch point

Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer appear happy to pursue growth at any cost – including the destruction of the planet

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Every extra oil well widens the availability of the product, that's bad. Please stop drilling.
If we immediately stopping drilling for oil here, we won't use less oil, we'll use the same amount of oil, but buy it off the Saudis, who suck.
- All oil goes on the global market. Drilling for it here doesn't mean we use British oil here, and doesn't meaningfully mean the Saudis produce any less. The only way forward is to wean ourselves off being dependent on oil
  
  I didn't say the Saudis would produce less, I said we'd use the same amount but buy more off the Saudis.
  We do need to move away from oil dependence (and we are), but until we do that, we need oil from somewhere and we may as well get it here.
- We buy almost all our oil from Norway, it's our gas that comes from the Gulf
  
  Well, we need both and we should keep exploring both, although we can probably get away from gas sooner.
  Norway is actually a great example of what I think we should do: keep using oil in order to fund a rapid transition to green power. It's working well for them!

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