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Big Oil Ignores Millions of Climate Deaths When Billions in Profit Are at Stake

C.J. Polychroniou8-10 minutes 4/8/2024

Big Oil Ignores Millions of Climate Deaths When Billions in Profit Are at Stake

As the world burns, radical climate change activism is our only hope.

Hundreds of Native Americans and supporters protested the Dakota Access Pipeline at Lafayette Park in front of the White House on October 12, 2021, in Washington D.C.Yasin Ozturk / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

As the world burns, radical climate change activism is our only hope.

Hundreds of Native Americans and supporters protested the Dakota Access Pipeline at Lafayette Park in front of the White House on October 12, 2021, in Washington D.C.Yasin Ozturk / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Human activity in a profit-driven world divided by nation-states and those who have rights and those who don’t is the primary driver of climate change. Burning fossil fuels and destroying forests have caused inestimable environmental harm by producing a warming effect through the artificial concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide (CO2) has risen by 50 percent in the past 200 years, much of it since the 1970s, raising in turn the Earth’s temperature by roughly 2 degrees Fahrenheit.