Profit and a regard
for sustaining earth’s suitability for humans are incompatibly, particularly if
profit is considered in contemporary terms.
Reporting on Davos 2015, The Guardian says: “It’s not
possible to listen to petroleum industry executives defending their reckless
extraction of oil without feeling that we are living in an age of madness.”
A private conversation under the Chatham House rules, one of
the world’s most senior industry leaders, who is considered to be at the more
moderate end of the spectrum, insisted that we are going to burn all the
world’s hydrocarbons despite the consequences.
Former U.S. vice-president and committed climate change
activist, Al Gore, has accused the world’s oil companies of using the
atmosphere as an open sewer.
Lord Stern, who wrote the landmark 2006 Stern review of the
economics of climate change, says it is no surprise oil executives are seeking
to defend their corner, who, like Gore, said basic arithmetic tells us that it
is impossible to burn all the world’s hydrocarbons without devastating
consequences.
He points out that the earth has not seen a 3C rise for 3m
years, he pointed out, and it has been tens of millions of year since there has
been a 4C rise.
Read the full story here: “Al Gore: oil companies 'use our atmosphere as an open sewer'”.
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