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Excellent, so that's...
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?
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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
Excellent, so that's 20,000 new plumbers we'll need. What about insulating all houses? And installing solar panels on every roof? And battery packs in every house? And changing the electricity grid over to support these renewables?
These are all the green jobs that will be created when we take the plunge to creating a zero carbon economy.
A lot of these jobs will be filled by people from the oil, gas and coal industry, who will get free training and a guaranteed job.