After THE OIL MACHINE: Ewan Gibbs

The issues raised in the film THE OIL MACHINE have become even more urgent with recent upheavals in energy security, the cost of living, and our climate. At the same time, the UK government is rushing to offer 100 new licences for North Sea oil and gas exploration. One year on from the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, we’re now going back to the film’s contributors to ask them how recent global events have shaped the ongoing debate about oil.
Here's our catch-up with Ewan Gibbs, a labour and energy historian at the University of Glasgow.
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There are similarities between the end of the slave trade and the terrible loss by slave owners of their ready source of income. In those circumstances the government of the day compensated the slave owners contrary to the laws of equity that by right ought to have prevailed. As we know, governments are connected at the hip to the 'owners' of industry, whether it be production of coal, and other fossil fuels, as well as to the owners of the latest iteration of capitalism, the financialised economy, including the multinational banks, investment corporations. insurance corporations, indeed the holders of all today's financialised and virtual capital that in effect constitutes the 'invisible hand of the market'. Thanks for this Sonja and Ewan, great

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Fossil fuels created the unprecedented economic growth that led to the anomaly that is the modern world. It's the modern world that keeps you safe from warming. Safe from everything. Meanwhile millions of people live in abject poverty. All climate policies induce further poverty. Poverty is a vastly greater threat than warming could ever be.