This is a piece of art that has really impressed me. It takes a number of existing shibboleths in modern society and turns them on its head. The story follows an oil company lobbyist who travels round the world finding ways to undermine climate change agreements before they are agreed to buy time for the oil companies to continue their work without binding international legal frameworks obstructing them. The play sets out upfront the point that securing global agreement and consensus was difficult in the halcyon days of the 1990s, let alone now, and that finding ways past our differences is extremely difficult. It is extremely fair to the arguments set out by the fossil fuel industry - the dependence of civilsation on cheap energy, and the ridiculous position of only rich (in 1990) countries controlling emissions and poor countries not needing to is really well set out. With a few twists this could easily have been a drama setting out the fossil fuel industry's whole position on c...
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