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The ABCs of Big Oil: How Big Oil Killed Our Political Imagination
On The ABCs of Big Oil, a new podcast miniseries produced in collaboration with Drilled, my co-host Amy Westervelt and I have been exploring the oil and gas industry’s infiltration of grade school curricula to promote the false idea that humanity needs fossil-fuelled capitalism to survive. This week, we’re moving on up to college, where…
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The ABCs of Big Oil: Why the Fossil Fuel Industry Infiltrated Schools
For decades, the fossil fuel industry has been distributing propaganda to limit how Americans think about taking on the climate crisis. They haven’t just done so through political lobbying and advertising. They’ve also taken a much more insidious route: shaping schools’ curricula. That’s what climate journalist Amy Westervelt and I explore in our new podcast,…
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Russia’s New Arctic Oil Development Is a Nightmare
Russia’s national oil company has begun construction on a massive project in the Arctic that officials say will produce 22.7 million tonnes of oil each year by 2024. The new operation is possible only because the Arctic is now traversable in places and at times it previously wasn’t, due to sea ice levels plummeting as…