In America if you kill your spouse you’ll end up in prison—but if you kill millions of people, you can laugh at the law and buy a new yacht.
Source: Opinion | The Murderous Corporate Psychopaths Who Never Go to Prison | Thom Hartmann
Category: fossil fuels
A Brief History of How Big Oil Outplayed Us All
For a century, the fossil fuel industry has outmaneuvered regulators and the public to lock in its power and profits, at the world’s expense.
Source: A Brief History of How Big Oil Outplayed Us All – In These Times
Billionaire Space Flights Are a Carbon Bomb That Will Destroy the Planet
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are dead set on expanding commercial space flight — even though a single person taking one of their carbon-spewing joy rides will produce more pollution in a few minutes than people belonging to 1/8th of the world population will in their entire lives.
Source: Billionaire Space Flights Are a Carbon Bomb That Will Destroy the Planet
As last Coal Chimney Falls, Will Green Energy Issue in Scotland Break up the United Kingdom?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon of the Scottish National Party, pushed the button last week …
Source: As last Coal Chimney Falls, Will Green Energy Issue in Scotland Break up the United Kingdom?
Oil-Backed Group Opposes Offshore Wind for Environmental Reasons
Local think tanks that previously supported offshore drilling have engaged in a wide-ranging campaign to stop the expansion of offshore wind farms.
Source: Oil-Backed Group Opposes Offshore Wind for Environmental Reasons
Stealth oil-and-gas-leasing
Since Congress Lifted Crude Export Ban in 2015, US Has Dropped ‘Climate Bomb’ on World
Oil and gas exports from the Gulf Coast have surged by nearly 600%, and fossil fuel production in the Permian Basin has grown by 135%.
Source: Since Congress Lifted Crude Export Ban in 2015, US Has Dropped ‘Climate Bomb’ on World
Why Big Oil’s Pivot to Carbon Capture and Storage—While It Keeps on Drilling—Isn’t a Climate Solution
After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now shifting to a new strategy: presenting itself as the source of solutions. This repositioning includes rebranding itself as a “carbon management industry.”
Big Oil’s Big Lie About Who Caused the Climate Collapse
Fossil fuel corporations deceived as many people as they could for as long as they could. Their own scientists told them decades ago that their product was cooking the earth. Did that lead them to change course? No, it did not. It led them to suppressing the science, lying about it and seeding that monstrosity called climate denial. So now half the rulers of the U.S., one of the most powerful, violent, extensive and carbon polluting empires in human history, parrot idiotic talking points about burning oil, gas and coal supposedly NOT warming the earth.
Source: Big Oil’s Big Lie About Who Caused the Climate Collapse – CounterPunch.org
Biden Drilling Report Blasted as ‘Shocking Capitulation to the Needs of Corporate Polluters’
“Greenlighting more fossil fuel extraction, then pretending it’s OK by nudging up royalty rates, is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic,” said one campaigner.
Source: Biden Drilling Report Blasted as ‘Shocking Capitulation to the Needs of Corporate Polluters’
1848+: The End(s) of History 