'We're furious': Scotland's young climate activists react to North Sea licence round

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Renewable energy is affordable, clean, creates jobs, and doesn't put our planet and its people at stake.
61% : We urgently need the government to get with the times and focus on homegrown renewable energy and insulating our homes.
55% : Calum Hodgson, 30, GlasgowGreen New Deal Rising
54% : In a cost of living crisis, it's so frustrating to see the answers for energy security right in front of us - our island has massive wind, wave, and solar power potential.
49% : As young people who desperately want action, we must see an alternative vision of a real Green New Deal from opposition parties which prioritises our environment and our wellbeing.
29% : With rising temperatures hitting records in parts of Europe and elsewhere, as well as calls from environmentalists, scientists and the United Nations (UN) to stop any future fossil fuel production and exploration, the announcement from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday was met with outrage from young Scottish activists.

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