BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind,

and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas.

We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in

2023. VP.com slash and not all. The Economist.

Hello and welcome to the Intelligence and The Economist.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Russian forces simply need more men, cannon fodder, let's be honest, but a full-on draft has proved incredibly unpopular, so the

Kremlin is on a volunteer recruitment drive.

We look at the adverts and the inducements that are drawing new troops in.

And when people start to feel overwhelmed by the world that's brought to them by their

smartphones, what do they do?

They get dumb ones.

We turn back technological time.

But first. I recently went to Barcelona to investigate the war on tourism.

Corbin Duncan writes about finance and economics for the economist.

They are pretty grumpy. Locals in Barcelona have been

protesting, wielding water pistols at tourists who they see as changing the character of their city.

But it's not just Barcelona, all over Spain, the Canary Islands,

Mejorca, but also in Greece and Portugal in Tokyo and Seoul, locals and politicians are fighting

back against what they see as mass tourism. While locals might have a point, tourism is not always a bad thing. In fact, it could be really good for a country's economy.

So before we pick that apart, give me a picture then of global tourism in terms of the numbers.

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