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Call for Scotland to ditch its ‘addiction’ to oil and coal

One of Britain’s top green gurus has attacked Scotland for its “addiction” to the oil and coal industries which he says threaten to tip the world into catastrophic climate chaos.

Jonathon Porritt, a former high-level government adviser and a star of the environment world, has condemned the Scottish Government for backing new oil and coal developments which will produce huge amounts of climate pollution.