In the world economy, not all sectors are created equal. Industries farther up on the supply chain waterfall resources, raw materials, and components to the rest. The energy sector underpins all industrial production and transportation.
In August and September 2005, New Orleans was reduced to barbaric conditions. Nearly 2,000 people died, and 1.5 million lost their homes. This was a result of the criminal negligence of the ruling class.
This year’s COP summit is off to a farcical start, with the head of the conference caught brokering lucrative fossil fuel deals, and many world leaders not even bothering to show up at all!
Acidification of the oceans is killing coral reefs and threatening global food supply. The only way to stop this deadly trend is to remove the profit motive from the fossil fuel industry.
While extreme wildfire events have doubled in the last two decades due to climate change, our capacity to fight these fires has nearly halved.