Yes fossil fuels powered the incredible rise in living standards over recent centuries, but now their use needs to end. Because the companies selling them resist, their use need to be actively *ended*. We have the tech. A stirring articulation of this challenge: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread | Tim Winton

The lassitude that distinguishes our moment is born of sorrow and buried rage. We act like colonial subjects because, in effect, that’s what we are