To stop our climate-change-driven suicide, Congress must stop allowing oil exports, end subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, and promote clean American energy.
Each American — man, woman and child — paid around $2000 last year to subsidize the fossil fuel industry, according to an
analysis this year by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Worldwide, the fossil fuel industry's lobbying power has
gotten it about $6 trillion a year in subsidies; America's $600 billion a year gift to the energy barons
pours cash into this massively profitable industry at the rate of a million dollars a minute.
We're funding our own suicide: the world's largest fossil fuel companies right now have drilling and mining operations underway that, if completed, will push the world well past a catastrophic 2.7 degrees Celsius, the level that some scientists estimate could lead to a dinosaur-level extinction.And while the fossil fuel companies all give lip service to becoming "carbon neutral" they're entirely talking about their own operations, not the fossil fuel products their operations are producing.
Read more at
HartmannReport.com.
-Thom
