V&A Director Defends Fossil Fuel Sponsorships

September 5th, 2019

London’s Victoria & Albert Museum  headTristram Hunt said he sees no problem with receiving support from  fossil fuel firms such as BP.  “I think that the pre-history of fossil fuel companies in muddying the science about climate change, in lobbying, in their political acts, have been pretty criminal and they will be judged on that,” he says. “But, I also think they will be part of the solution to dealing with climate change and they are engaged with it. It’s their technological reach, it is their facilities that will also be part of the solution and I think they’re getting there.”

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