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autotldr t1_jacdrf0 wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 66%. (I'm a bot)


> As the sound of climate protesters reverberated through the conference room, BP Plc Chief Executive Officer Bernard Looney made the case that investment in more oil and gas is crucial for the transition away from those very fuels.

> The executive's pitch at the event - one of the city's biggest fossil fuel conferences - follows the company's recent announcement that it would cut oil and gas production more slowly than expected this decade.

> For the first time last year, investment in clean energy matched funding for fossil fuels, according to BloombergNEF. Still, the world is far behind a trajectory of emissions cuts that would enable it to reach the goals set out in the 2015 Paris climate agreement and prevent the worst impacts of global warming.


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robinNL070 t1_jacd74q wrote

One of the most important stuff is defence. If we in Europe had payed 2% of our budget on our defence we would have had far less issues now. Hopefully we have learned our lesson but it will still take a decade to get back at what we need to be to become a serious player to make a country think twice before they start invading someone.

The whole reason we have such a high GDP and have schools, healthcare and everything is because of the global security of free trade. It pays itself back many times to have this world order.

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