Environment

“The oil price collapse creates a historic opening: a public buyout of the fossil fuel sector to enact a managed decline of extraction and ensure a just transition for workers and communities.”

“This is a really key and important time to ensure those bailouts are not used to extend the lives of these companies, but instead are able to potentially take them into public ownership and then ensure that they aren't shedding worker commitments or community commitments or environmental commitments.”

While society generally may not yet understand these consequences, major oil companies have understood the risks of climate change driving these impacts for decades.

"This pandemic is a preview of what could happen to our world if we don’t adequately address the climate crisis. Only it’s going to be tenfold worse."

"This final rule will increase the risk of more kids with asthma and brain damage, and more people with cancer."

Are we any closer to preventing a similar—or worse—catastrophe?

In a moment where we feel caged, where we are scared of losing our loved ones, and we feel vulnerable in the middle of a pandemic that seems unstoppable, our ecosystem is presenting us with a challenge.

“The crash that we’re seeing in the oil and gas and petrochemicals industry is a recent intensification of what has been a very long-term trend.”

The climate crisis requires us to flatten the curve of our greenhouse gas emissions and toxic, polluting society.

"Combating climate change is not a matter for one country. It requires collective action and cooperation from all countries around the world."