Other thing we need to understand is that the financial power of the fossil fuel industry has so far prevented even any minor progress. They have a sweetheart deal unlike any other business on Earth: they're allowed to dispose of their waste for free, to use the atmosphere as an open sewer. And they will do all they can to defend that special privilege.
Profiting from companies that are overloading the atmosphere with carbon and changing the atmosphere is wrong.
From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.
Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.
I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the earth's atmosphere at the moment.
There's no huge mystery. If you dig up huge amounts of carbon, huge amounts of ancient biology, hundreds of millions of year's worth of ancient biology, and flush it into the atmosphere in a matter of decades, then it stands to reason that we're going to have enormous effects, and now we can see those effects all around us.
