Oxfam’s climate policy adviser, Lyndsay Walsh, said: “Extracting more fossil fuels from the North Sea will send a wrecking ball through the UK’s climate commitments at a time when we should be investing in a just transition to a low-carbon economy and our own abundant renewables.”
On the surface, climate change might not seem like an obviously political topic. After all nothing - not the economy, migration, education, the NHS - actually matters if the human race has died out because weather conditions have rendered our planet uninhabitable for us. Anyone who is still labouring under this delusion needs to watch episode five of Chris Packham's brilliant series 'Earth'. As you will learn if you listen to Chris real and b) urgent) our window for taking action is diminishing rapidly. Climate induced mass migration and dwindling food and water supplies are already a reality in the Global South and will soon impact the entire planet.