Blaming and demonising each other won’t solve our dependency on fossil fuels or combat climate change, says Mark Moody-Stuart

I have spent almost 50 years working in the extractive industries or related fields. Indeed, as a director of Saudi Aramco, I still do. I have always considered that the supply of reliable economic and convenient energy makes an essential contribution to the economic and – in many cases – social and sustainable development of society.

However, as with most things we humans set our hands to, this has never been without downsides.

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