Electric cars, carbon capture, planting trees; all these climate actions feel like fighting a wildfire while an arsonist is setting more fires.
Don't get me wrong - we *need* people fighting the fires (even if some of them are more effective than others).
But more urgently, someone needs to stop the arsonist.
Stopping the arsonist means stopping OPEC who owns politicians.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/08/opec-rails-against-fossil-fuel-phase-out-at-cop28-in-leaked-letters
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/global-opec-chiefs-call-for-huge-investment-in-oil-is-a-formula-for-climate-disaster/
Trump
https://newrepublic.com/post/179250/president-trump-owes-saudi-arabia-540-million
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68296877
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2024/02/28/heres-who-could-loan-trump-540-million/?sh=5f5ce5103746
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/27/trump-saudis-influence-buying/
https://thehill.com/policy/4215912-saudi-crown-prince-suggests-investment-would-stay-in-kushner-fund-if-trump-reelected/
Speaker Mike Johnson
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4275210-mike-johnson-speaker-gop-pro-oil-climate-skeptical-record/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/who-is-mike-johnson-house-speaker-election-denier-climate-anti-abortion
https://blog.ucsusa.org/derrick-jackson/house-speaker-mike-johnsons-climate-change-playbook-deny-the-science-take-the-funding/
Rishi Sunak
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/07/19/uks-invite-saudi-crown-prince-risks-rubber-stamping-repression
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1817191/rishi-sunak-typhoon-jets-deal-saudi-arabia-germany-bae-systems
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2308266/world
Among others.
Feel free to add to my list of fossil fuel shills...
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