Why is Business As Usual allowed to go on? Why do governments continue to subsidize the fossil fuel industry and issue even more drilling permits when it seems obvious to most of us that this is the wrong course?
Why? Because governments don’t listen to people like you and me.
Instead, they listen to their “seasoned” advisors, ministers and cabinet members formerly employed by oil and gas companies. They listen to lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry, people who used to work beside them in government, part of that revolving door. And they listen to “experts” from the Chicago school of economics who promise them that we can do both: we can slowly reduce some harmful emissions AND keep our economies growing. It’s a win-win!
But it’s a devastating loss for Earth’s biosphere, for our climate and for our natural environment.
