Advocates

James is a writer, activist and co-author of Crude Britannia. He is an executive producer of the film The Oil Machine.
"Effectively, we're living inside an oil machine. Oil has shaped our life for decades and also our thinking and feeling."

Tessa Khan is a UK-based environmental lawyer, co-founder and co-director of the Climate Litigation Network, which supports legal cases related to climate change mitigation and climate justice.
She is also founder and director of Uplift which supports the climate movement to "strategically resource, connect, and elevate ideas and voices to set in motion a just transition away from fossil fuel production."
"There’s actually a huge opportunity here for the UK to be a leader in the development and deployment of renewables in creating clean jobs. So it’s a very exciting time to be working on the issue but I think it’s also deadly serious that we get this right and that we get it right now."

Ann Pettifor is a political economist, author and public speaker. Her latest book, The Case for the Green New Deal, was published by Verso in 2019.
Ann predicted the financial crash of 2008 and links challenges created by the oil machine to those within unstable and deregulated financial systems.
"We have a system where the financial system switches its taps on, fuels consumption which in turn fuels production which in turn fuels emissions [...] we are not going to be able to manage consumption and production and emissions."