https://truthout.org/articles/how-oil-money-turned-louisiana-into-the-prison-capital-of-the-world/

#WhiteSkinBlackFuel: Louisiana’s budget was so flush with #oil surpluses that for three straight years, prison construction costs, to redress medical neglect, unsafe facilities, religious discrimination, racial segregation and the violence of solitary confinement, (but not incarcerating innocents), were covered with cash on hand instead of the more typical debt financing.

#KenSaroWiwa #TragedyOfEnclosure #DeterioratingCarbonSinks #CancerAlley #EnvironmentalInJustice #AbolistPoliceAbolishPrisons

How Oil Money Turned Louisiana Into the Prison Capital of the World

A series of events in the 1970s led to the state's penal system becoming intertwined with the swings of its oil economy.

Truthout

#WhiteSkinBlackFuel: The United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Norway are responsible for the majority of planned expansion of new oil and gas fields through 2050... final text includes several “escape routes” for continued fossil fuel production.

https://newrepublic.com/article/177536/cop-28-un-climate-talks-poorer-nations

#RiseOfFossilFascism
#TransitionInJustice
#DictatorLove

The U.N. Climate Talks Hung Poorer Nations Out to Dry

Nearly 200 countries agreed to transition away from fossil fuels, but the U.S. and others are actually expanding oil and gas exploration while refusing to finance the transition for poorer countries.

The New Republic

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/10/climate-change-museum-environment-justice-new-york/

#WhiteSkinBlackFuel: The Climate Museum’s newest exhibit features a 45-foot mural depicting the history of fossil fuels, from the industry’s racialized, colonial foundations to a vision of a fossil-fuel-free future. It’s the work of decorated children’s illustrator R. Gregory Christie

#KeepItInTheGround

How to picture a greener future: Inside the first climate museum

A new exhibition gets viewers "emotionally involved" in the fossil fuel fight.

Mother Jones