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I think the blame for this lies entirely at the feet of the oil and gas companies. Spending hundreds of millions spreading lies and climate change denial, whilst simultaneously donating massively to political parties to ensure their support. I guess when you are making tens of billions of pounds a year, that's what you can spend to protect your profits.
The political donations make it hard for politicians to act (but not impossible), but the lies and climate denial meant there was cover for the politicians inaction.
Lebowski
This is what I really struggle with.
We have slow economic growth, wage stagnation, shortage of skilled domestic jobs, real risk of mass white-collar redundancies from AI, the resource curse of financial services, all set against the new challenge of Brexit.
Why is this government so reticent to push the UK toward a fucking massive growth area which could see us position ourselves as one of the world leaders?