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Sunak unveils expansion of North Sea oil and gas drilling - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by GreatAlbatross to c/uk_politics

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[–] Badtouchspez@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly what the world needs right now. More CO2 emissions.

The planets fucked.

[+] Nolegjoe@lemmy.world -9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Whether you like it or not, the UK still requires oil and gas in its energy mix, and will continue to require it for another decade or so. The options are to ship it in from the middle east, US, or Russia. Or, we can source it ourselves from the North Sea. Getting it ourselves will actually have less CO2 emissions as we won't be shipping it halfway across the planet.

[–] tenebrisnox 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not if the country went on "war footing" about the climate catastrophe and took measures to ensure that budgets were redirected into eco-investments (eg. stop spending £3 billion a year on the maintenance of 50 trident missiles). Radical investments in things like tidal power, completely free public transport etc. Where there's a will there's a way.

[–] yip-bonk@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

This. We’re now past “well we have to kill the planet, because economy”, etc. Renewables, electric cars. Go.

[–] Badtouchspez@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Whether you like it or not, the UK still requires oil and gas in its energy mix, and will continue to require it for another decade or so.

Tbh who’s fault is that. There was plenty of warning and time for the UK to decarbonise. She chose not to.

[–] ThatIdiotMonro@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Except, how long will it take for this expansio to come onstream, and how expensive in terms of CO2 emissions will the infrastructure manufacturing be?

[–] Ruchbah 1 points 1 year ago

That is assuming that by extracting it ourselves we are at least equally reducing how much is being extracted elsewhere…. Which obviously isn’t the case. This will take carbon that’s currently trapped under the ground and release it into the atmosphere.

They are killing us for profit & votes

[–] Radium@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

We’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas! Might as well keep raw dogging the planet to make sure my rich friends stay rich.

It’s only the poor who suffer from climate change anyway.

[–] alienzx@feddit.nl 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This guy is dumb

[–] randomname01@feddit.nl 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nah, he’s apathetic and completely on the side of the capital class. These choices haven’t been about lack of knowledge for decades.

[–] tenebrisnox 5 points 1 year ago

Yes, this.

[–] dbaner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's also desperate to keep his job. And the only thing that won them any votes in the recent bi-elections was their opposition to the low emission legislation in London

[–] dbaner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's extreme self centered short termism

[–] guriinii@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This guy is ~~dumb~~ greedy.

[–] doppelgangmember@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Apparently we only have 47 years of oil supplies left anyway everyone! -_-