Like a lot of people in the climate space, my mind has been spinning this week as I've watched images of the entire world reeling from intense heat, flash floods, wildfires and other climate-change-intensified extreme weather events, interspersed with a sudden deluge of denialism, new and old. At the same
It’s going to take a lot more than legal challenges to hold the people profitting off of this to account. The system is designed so that those with money can drag things out, something oil companies in particular are expert about. Plus the rich write the laws, and love fossil fuels’ effect on their wallets, I doubt they’ll take this seriously until we’re well over the brink.
But there is another way. Fossil fuel infrastructure exists physically, it can be destroyed with a few dedicated people, a good plan, and high risk tolerance. Executives and billionairres also exist in the physical world, as bodies that require food, shelter, and medical care. I’m honestly surprised there hasn’t been more focus on making change where they are weak, instead of this focus on institutions and policy where they have already stacked the deck.