Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
Keeping something in reserve
		A new study calculates that the majority of fossil fuels must remain in the ground to limit climate change, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
	
			THE challenge of climate change is an existential crisis. Not for humanity, but for capitalism.
The energy consumption of our societies relies on the extraction of fossil fuels. Existing reserves of coal, crude oil and gas all formed slowly over millions of years.
Though these fuels may seem unnatural, they are organic in origin: layers of plankton and plants laid down in sedimentary layers, heated and squeezed, transformed into a fuel.
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               Natural hydrogen gas could be a replacement for fossil fuels, but its extraction could see developing nations face familiar patterns of land loss and resource theft, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT 
   
               

