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   "Everywhere I look there are opportunities to be addressing climate change and everywhere I look we are not doing it."        Bill Nye    

                                                 ^{Ecologist's Opinion | October 1, 2021}

       IF WE ALL DIE, THEY’LL NEVER HAVE TO FACE JUSTICE

   That’s what it seems like the mindset is when Big Oil continues on apace, not slowing in searching for more pollution sites, still getting a windfall out of the Arctic, while continuing its campaign of sowing doubt and misinformation to the common citizen.  And also while it's now using the so-called carbon offset to sell a shipload of crude while purporting it to be 100% carbon-neutral.

   The one repetitive theme throughout our opinions has been that Big Oil is our enemy.  Big Oil is Earth's Public Enemy #1.  This has become a real fight to the death, either the death of fossil fuel burning, or the death of humans, themselves, on a not-so-far-into-the-future planet that has become uninhabitable for us.  Real shades of Heinlein and Asimov here, as any few surviving would have to do so underground and in sealed environments.

   Big Oil only doubles down.  They’ve taken to greenwashing, so they know enough to say the right words.  But their actions make it crystal clear they will have to be stopped.  Leaders are now saying out loud that coal is done.  Coal is over.  But coal is still burning everywhere around the world.

   Leaders need to start saying that fossil fuels are done.  That fossil fuels are over.  Joe Biden hasn’t crossed that Rubicon and it doesn’t seem that he’s going to.

*Financial institutions continue to bankroll the boosting of Big Oil’s Arctic production, which is doing great and actually expected to increase.

*A knowingly false oil record book by a Greek ship got a $2 million fine by a US federal court.  Knowingly poisoning the environment still gets only a fine.

*Business Insider runs an article pointing out that the new world’s largest carbon-capture plant is pretty much worthless, that the tech is just too expensive, obviously part of the disinformation campaign.  This is what started us thinking that they honestly don’t care if we all die.  If so, it will be too late for them to face consequences of their ecocide.  They’ve adopted the old hippie creed, “Let’s live for today, forget about tomorrow.”

*And the icing: carbon offsets.  Occidental announced that by purchasing carbon credits, they’ve sold an entire shipload of crude that was 100% carbon neutral.  You need to read it to believe it.

   This is a fight to the death.  Ours.  Big Oil is our enemy.  The enemy of all things living. 

   Public Enemy #1.

   C’mon, Joe.  You’ve got to say it out loud.

   

^{                              from 1978!}        

                          TOGETHER IN A CLOSET                                                                 by the Ecologist

Imagine that a whole big bunch of us is in a closet together.  We can make it a really big closet, but it’s a closet.   No windows and only one door.  And if we open the door, everyone dies.  So we have to stick it out and survive until tomorrow in this closet together.  We’ll always have enough air, but if we allow that guy over there to light his cigar the air will smell like cigar smoke.  For a long time.  With just that one cigar.  We're gonna have to make it past tomorrow.

But no one is willing to tell him to cut it out.  He smokes one after another and now the air is getting really bad because of it.  Someone needs to tell him to stop.  There are actually some folks being sickened by the smoke.  It looks like it’s going to have to come to the point that a group of us get together and make him stop.

That’s what Extinction Rebellion  is all about, that’s why they exist today.         Greenpeace  exists for the same reason.  Whiners and deniers say 17-year-old Greta Thunberg hasn’t offered one concrete idea about what we should do, or how we should do it.  Neither has X Rebellion or Greenpeace.  They’re all just trying to get us to STOP what we’re doing and how we’re doing it.

Like that group of us who, sooner or later, is going to go make that guy stop lighting his cigars inside our closet.

So, for yourself, what’s it going to be?  Sooner?  Or later?

"Now is the time for each and everyone of us to decide which side of history we are on." Extinction Rebellion, 4/28/19

So for you, what’s it going to be?  And when?   



"We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow."  Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu