Hello and welcome back to Drilled. I'm Amy Westervelt.

Today we are bringing you the fourth and final episode of the mini-series, the Black

Thread, about Norway's complicated relationship with its identity as both a progressive leader and an oil state.

This mini-series comes to you from the host of the communicating climate change podcast, Dickon Bonnevik-Stone,

and was created in collaboration with Norwegian non-profit climate culture.

In today's episode, we look at Norway beyond oil. Because despite the limits that Norway's oil industry imposes on its citizens' ability to imagine a future without fossil fuels,

people all over the country are starting to speak up, take action, and begin the work to free themselves from the industry's influence.

We're excited to bring you this fourth

and final episode of The Black Thread. Enjoy. Welcome back to The Black Thread, a podcast

unraveling Norway's complex relationship with prosperity,

identity and responsibility in a warming world. I'm Dickon, a climate communications expert based in

Oslo, the Norwegian capital, tracing the black thread, oiled through Norway's society and culture.

Last time, we picked at the needlework, uncovering dropped stitches in the stories and rhetoric

of the Norwegian fossil fuel industry, and the logic championed by Norway's major political

parties to extend the country's oil age long into the future.

Reflecting back to the first episode of this series, and sociologists Carrie Norgaard's claim that,

when you study something that's a threat to society,

you start to see how things work,

I think it's fair to say that through this journey of discovery,

drilling into Norway's oil story,

we've begun to do exactly that.

But where do we go from here? In this closing episode of the Black Thread,

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