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Waterwork: The Clash Between Social Rights and Fossil Capitalism in Norwegian Fiction

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by Karl Emil Rosenbæk Reetz Norway – a nation where oil production was born at sea – is by far the largest producer of fossil fuels in Europe. The second largest, the UK, is distanced by a factor of 2.3 according to the EIA (disregarding the Eurasian fossil mastodon of Russia).[1] To zoom in on …