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🧩 BND Motif Index · M1227

Keep it in the ground

New oil and gas fields are to be stopped, every one, Jackdaw, Rosebank and the next: in a climate crisis the fossil fuels must stay in the ground.

πŸ“£ Exhortations

⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.

A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.

πŸͺœ Its family

what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it

↔️ answers and mirrors:

πŸ—£οΈ In so many words

the words that carry it

πŸ’¬ the tellers' own words: β€œNo new oil and gas in our seas.” β€œsay no to more new fossil fuels” β€œTell your MP to #StopRosebank Oil Field”

🧢 Its claims

what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)

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claims many people posted in their own words

  • 2026-10-22 β€œThe Jackdaw gasfield is climate-wrecking and should be stopped, along with Rosebank and any new North Sea oil and gas.”

M1227 Β· first seen 2026-10-25 Β· what this is Β· how the index works