We cannot let the ever-expanding oil and gas industry stand in the way of urgently needed climate action. Nick Dowson lays out a path to change.
This isn’t working.
Wherever Big Oil goes, it brings devastation. Spills smother ecosystems; air pollution chokes cities. Earthquakes follow fracking and gas extraction. Plastics clog up seas. Democratic governments are toppled or corrupted, strongmen propped up.
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