- A Tipping Point for the Defeat of Fossil Fuels? Archived Message
Posted by sashimi
on December 11, 2020, 7:02 am
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How to Stop Big Energy in Its Tracks (Quite Literally) Richard Lachmann, Michael Schwartz, and Kevin A. Young, 10 December 2020 Fortunately, a more promising strategy for defeating new fossil-fuel projects has been quietly bearing fruit, even in the Trump era. Climate and Indigenous organizers have been attacking Big Energy companies and their investors, using economic pressure, boycotts, lawsuits, and disruptive direct-action tactics to impede drilling, interrupt the transportation of oil and gas, and choke off the flow of financing to, and insurance for, such projects. This multipronged strategy has been so surprisingly successful that the companies themselves -- especially their sources of funding -- have begun divesting from fossil-fuel extraction and infrastructure. As our desperately overheated planet continues setting records, understanding the largely unnoticed success of recent resistance movements is crucial if we hope to prevent total ecological collapse. -- http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176784 |
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