For the New York Times (4/21/20), the devastating “nightmare” is that people are burning much less oil.
As Covid-19 Forces Emission Reductions, Media Offer 🦖 Oil Industry Elegies By Dorothee Benz, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Last week on April 22 the world marked the 50th anniversary of
Earth Day. Air pollution in the world’s major cities was down dramatically 👍; for the first time in decades, the Himalayan Mountains could be seen from 100 miles away 👍. The canals in Venice were so clear you could see the fish swimming in them 👍, and lions were sleeping on the roads in South Africa 👍. All of these developments, and others like them, were the
consequences of a
global reduction in fossil-fuel emissions. Alas, none of this is the result of popular political pressure to finally bring fossil-fuel capitalism to...
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