Just remember, for the owners of extractive resources, if they lose that revenue stream, they might be forced to earn their money instead. That must terrify them. Much easier sitting on a lake of oil and living the rentier life on a massive scale.
But this is an existential crisis, and if they don’t take no for an answer, it’s possible that the time will come soon when someone has to go in and shut down that business the hard way.
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
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