The desperation of Olivia Colman’s climate change video

When you have a surname like Colman you might think it would be best to avoid appearing in an advertising campaign playing a latex-wearing, greedy fossil fuel executive who puts her own wealth above the good of the planet. The name Colman first appeared in England in the 12^th century, denoting someone who made their living gathering coal or burning charcoal. But perhaps that irony was lost on actress Olivia Colman when she agreed to front a campaign by a pressure group called Make My Money Matter, which appeals to investors to write to their pension fund managers demanding that they divest from fossil fuels. The group claims that £88 billion of British pension funds are invested in fossil fuels.

Thank God for that, many pensioners will be tempted to say. Oil and gas shares have been among the few investments which have performed well over the past couple of years as the world continues to rely on fossil fuels and the Ukraine invasion has pushed up prices.