{"id":609,"date":"2017-08-08T16:38:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T16:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/?p=609"},"modified":"2017-08-08T16:40:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T16:40:11","slug":"british-petroleum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"British Petroleum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BP continues with its plans for extreme deep water oil drilling in the Amazon Reef.\u00a0I will not buy petrol from them unless they cancel these plans, and I recommend that you do the same. Watch this short video by Greenpeace UK about BP.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greenpeaceuk\/videos\/10155180056363300\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greenpeaceuk\/videos\/10155180056363300\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Is it really worth destroying one of the beautiful natural wonders of the world, when such places are rapidly decreasing, just for the sake of more oil to burn? What will we have to show for it in years to come? We will have driven around more in cars, BP will be richer, but the world will become barren.<\/p>\n<p>And, fundamentally, burning our reserves of fossil fuels will result in temperatures vastly exceeding safe limits, as this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v517\/n7533\/full\/nature14016.html?foxtrotcallback=true\">article in nature<\/a>\u00a0demonstrates, leading to worldwide catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>Since BP&#8217;s environmentally devastating Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010,\u00a0BP have had at least five other <em>known<\/em> oil spills. They are not to be trusted.<\/p>\n<p>The public can stop them drilling in the Amazon. Take responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BP continues with its plans for extreme deep water oil drilling in the Amazon Reef.\u00a0I will not buy petrol from them unless they cancel these plans, and I recommend that you do the same. Watch this short video by Greenpeace UK about BP. &nbsp; Is it really worth destroying one of the beautiful natural wonders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}