Sunday, February 9, 2020

Global Britain’s real climate changers: Big Oil must be taken down

This is such an informative article that it was difficult to find an excerpt as every bit is pertinent.



In Britain the chief generators of climate apartheid can be summed up in two words, “BP” and “Shell.” Hydrocarbon capital is especially concentrated in the UK....


Taken together with the ownership patterns of the big mining companies, these figures indicate a broad pattern of money from global extraction operations being sucked into London as the executive and financial centre; and then distributed as property income through asset management houses to shareholders in the UK, and to similar rentiers in the US, Western Europe and some, mostly white, ‘Commonwealth’ countries.


MR Online


Global Britain’s real climate changers: Big Oil must be taken down

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