North Sea oil and gas

The UK government claims that extracting oil and gas in the UK supports 200,000 jobs. Activists are calling that claim into question.

I would not trust any claims the fossil fuel industry makes about how much it benefits the rest of society. But whether that claim is true or false is a secondary issue.

The principal question in this issue is how many additional deaths it will cause in the coming climate disaster. When the government downplays that question, it is prioritizing the short term over the long term.