There is no simple, quick fix to climate change; no technological silver bullet that will eliminate this problem as easily as many hope.

Why do I say that? The answer lies in the parallels between ending our dependence on fossil-fuels and the abolition of slavery.

The first time these two concepts were linked for me was seven years ago, when a senior oil industry executive in London asked me a rhetorical question: "If it wasn’t for oil, where would we get our energy?” His answer, to my astonishment, was “slavery”.

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