The Conservative Government are putting near-term politics above the climate - and the economy
Rishi Sunak’s approval of the Rosebank oil field shows his ideological incompetence on climate changeSeptember 27, 2023 5:26 pmIt is hard to fully comprehend. Located 80 miles of west of Shetland, it contains 500 million barrels of oil and gas. This week the UK Government approved its development and extraction by fossil fuel companies.
, collapsing ice sheets, devastating flooding – indicators of climate breakdown are off the charts. I know scientific colleagues who are becoming increasingly panicked about the speed of climate change this year, and next year may be even worse., and so seriously derails the country’s efforts to get to net zero by 2050. It is now abundantly clear that the Conservative Government are putting near-term politics above the climate, even the economy.
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