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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Peter Kalmus

Why is Biden boasting about drilling for oil? Our planet demands we stop now

‘A visionary leader would seize this moment to reduce consumption.’ Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

We are spiraling further into climate and ecological breakdown. Now is the perfect moment to build out renewables and end the fossil fuel industry as if the future of humanity depends on it.

Putin’s unprovoked and atrocious invasion of Ukraine has laid bare many things. One of these is our society’s precarious dependence on fossil fuels. Another is a burgeoning climate-driven food crisis. It’s time to phase out fossil fuels and industrial beef production with wartime resolve.

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