By Chris Hoffman
“Generals are always prepared to fight the last war.”
It is a quote that has been attributed to Winston S. Churchill and to many others, and the proverb is equally applicable to those who advocate increasing the production of oil and gas to meet the present crisis.
Increasing the production of oil and gas prepares us for the last century, not this one. Nor does it prepare us for the future…if we want to have a better future.
Historically oil and gas have done wonderful things to give us a better world. But now we recognize that their carbon and methane emissions have also given us a contaminated world and threaten our very future.
The latest report from the world’s climate experts, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, spells it out: “The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal: Climate change is a threat to human well-being and…
Accelerate the transition to clean energy, not oil and gas production
