Time is running out to build an oil-free future | Andrew Simms

In 78 months climatic instability will worsen. We have the lifetime of this parliament to get money out of oil and into renewables

We may be in the grip of the worst economic upheaval for half a century, but the UK is still at heart a forward-looking, modern economy, isn't it? Smogs and satanic mills are things of the past and we have a model that is resource-light and service driven, don't we?

Perhaps not. In the UK for the first quarter of this year, £1 in every £4 paid in dividends to...