![]() While the industry has been producing the energy to make our climate more liveable, we have treated it as a villain. “I believe that we owe the fossil fuel industry an apology. Try telling that to the communities in Ecuador affected by the oil spills for which Chevron was fined $19 billion, people in Richmond, California, who live in the shadow of the Chevron refinery that exploded in 2012, communities living near mountaintop removal coal plants, people living near fracking sites, or First Nations peoples living near the tar sands in Alberta, Canada. He bemoans the fact that fossil fuel companies “have had to fight daily for permission to empower billions of people”. ![]() ![]() “As you read this,” he writes, “there is a real, live, committed movement against fossil fuels that truly wants to deprive us of the energy of life.” This painting of the oil industry as the good guys, as the misunderstood heroes being undermined by uninformed idiots (ie, you and I), is the first, but by no means the last, place where Epstein parts company with reality. ![]()
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