Black gold
May 10, 2021
3 minutes
Crude Britannia is a small island that grew wealthy on the back of oil, other peoples and resources from under the North Sea.
Today the future of oil looks shaky as many realise the same black gold that brought jobs and opportunities also produced climate breakdown. Britain boasts of leading the way in developing renewable forms of energy such as offshore wind.
But progress towards a zero-carbon future is being hampered by the oil culture that flows through our veins.
Nowhere more so than in
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